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Afrofuturism rising : the literary prehistory of a movement
- Title
- Afrofuturism rising : the literary prehistory of a movement / Isiah Lavender III.
- Author
- Lavender, Isiah, III
- Publication
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xi, 230 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Explores afrofuturism as a narrative practice by applying it to canonical African American literary texts by Wheatley, Walker, Douglass, Jacobs, Delany, Hopkins, Hurston, and Wright; trans-historically rereads the texts as science fiction and argues that the black experience of spatial and temporal dislocation in America is akin to science fiction"--
- Series Statement
- New suns: race, gender, and sexuality in the speculative
- Uniform Title
- New suns: race, gender, and sexuality in the speculative.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Science fiction.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-215) and index.
- Contents
- Part I. 1619-1903 : The Afrofuturist vista and the possibility of freedom. Hope and freedom technologies -- Black uprisings and the fight for the future -- Of alien abductions, pocket universes, trickster technologies, and slave narratives -- Part II. Afrofuturism and classic twentieth-century African American novels. Black bodies in space : Zora Neale Thurston's Their eyes were watching God -- "Metallically black" : Bigger Thomas and the black apocalyptic vision of Richard Wright's Native son -- Racial warfare, radical afrofuturism, and John A. Williams's Captain Blackman -- Conclusion : Into the black-o-sphere.
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-298
- ISBN
- 9780814214138
- 0814214134
- 9780814255568
- 0814255566
- LCCN
- 2019018573
- OCLC
- 1096293868
- Author
- Lavender, Isiah, III, author. Author
- Title
- Afrofuturism rising : the literary prehistory of a movement / Isiah Lavender III.
- Publisher
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New suns: race, gender, and sexuality in the speculativeNew suns: race, gender, and sexuality in the speculative.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-215) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-298