The Black Imagination, Science Fiction and the Speculative
Gebonden Engels 2010 9780415614825Samenvatting
This book expands the discourse as well as the nature of critical commentary on science fiction, speculative fiction and futurism – literary and cinematic by Black writers. The range of topics include the following: black superheroes; issues and themes in selected works by Octavia Butler; selected work of Nalo Hopkinson; the utopian and dystopian impulse in the work of W.E. B. Du Bois and George Schuyler; Derrick Bell’s Space Traders; the Star Trek Franchise; female protagonists through the lens of race and gender in the Alien and Predator film franchises; science fiction in the Caribbean Diaspora; commentary on select African films regarding near-future narratives; as well as a science fiction/speculative literature writer’s discussion of why she writes and how. This book was published as a special issue of African Identities: An International Journal.
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1.Brave black worlds: black superheroes as science fiction ciphers Adilifu Nama
2.Arboreal dialogics: an ecocritical exploration of Octavia Butler’s Dawn Andrew Plisner
3.But that’s just mad! Reading the utopian impulse in Dark princess and Black empire Amor Kohli
4.Vanishing bodies: ‘race’ and technology in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight robber Elizabeth Boyle
5.Earthling dreams in black and white: space, representation and US racial politics in
‘The space traders’ Julie Moody-Freeman
6.‘Explorers’ – Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Micheal Charles Pounds
7.Terrans, extraterrestrials, warriors and the last (wo)man standing Sandra Jackson
8.Cognition’s warp: African films on near-future risk Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi
9.Organic fantasy Nnedi Okorafor
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