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The Black Imagination, Science Fiction and the Speculative book cover

1st Edition

The Black Imagination, Science Fiction and the Speculative

Edited By Sandra Jackson, Julie Moody Freeman Copyright 2011
176 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Editorial note: the genre of science fiction and the black imagination  Sandra Jackson and Julie Moody-Freeman

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

Biography

Sandra Jackson is a Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at DePaul University.

Julie Moody-Freeman is an Associate Professor of African and Black Diaspora Studies at DePaul University.

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