Research Catalog

Title

Literary Afrofuturism in the twenty-first century / edited by Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek.

Publication

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2020]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lavender, Isiah, III
• Yaszek, Lisa, 1969-

Description

viii, 254 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.

Summary

"Explores the cultural valence of Afrofuturism. It examines works by a wide range of authors, including Phyllis Wheatley, Samuel R. Delany, Octavia E. Butler, and N.K. Jemisin"--

Series Statement

New suns: race, gender, and sexuality in the speculative

Uniform Title

New suns: race, gender, and sexuality in the speculative.

Subject

• Afrofuturism
• American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
• American literature > History and criticism
• Science fiction > History and criticism
• American literature
• American literature > African American authors

Genre/Form

• Science fiction.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. Imagining futures in full color / Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek -- Part one. Afrofuturism now -- Author roundtable on Afrofuturism / Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek -- Dangerous muses : black women writers creating at the forefront of Afrofuturism / Sheree R. Thomas -- Part two. Afrofuturism in literary history -- This time for Africa! Afrofuturism as alternate (American) history / De Witt Douglas Kilgore -- Middle age, mer people, and the Middle Passage : Nalo Hopkinson's Afrofuturist journeying in The new moon's arms / Gina Wisker -- Young adult Afrofuturism / Rebecca Holden -- Part three. Afrofuturism in cultural history -- Space/race : recovering John M. Faucette / Mark Bould -- Runoff : Afroaquanauts in landscapes of sacrifice / Elizabeth A. Wheeler -- Black futures matter : Afrofuturism and geontology in N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy / Lisa Dowdall -- Part four. Afrofuturism and Africa -- We are terror itself : Wakanda as nation / Gerry Canavan -- Global Afrofuturist ecologies / Jerome Winter -- "You can't go home again" : Deji Bryce Olukotun's Nigerians in space, science fiction, and global interdependence / Marleen S. Barr -- Faster than before : science fiction in Amos Tutuola's The palm-wine drinkard / Nedine Moonsamy -- Coda : Wokeness and Afrofuturism / Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek.

Call Number

Sc E 21-399

ISBN

• 9780814214459
• 0814214452

LCCN

2020004433

OCLC

1142519570

Title

Literary Afrofuturism in the twenty-first century / edited by Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek.

Publisher

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New suns: race, gender, and sexuality in the speculative

New suns: race, gender, and sexuality in the speculative.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

ED: U GEORGIA.

Added Author

Lavender, Isiah, III, editor.

Yaszek, Lisa, 1969- editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 21-399