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The Black Imagination

Science Fiction, Futurism and the Speculative

Produktform: Buch / Einband - flex.(Paperback)

This critical collection covers a broad spectrum of works, both literary and cinematic, and issues from writers, directors, and artists who claim the science fiction, speculative fiction, and Afro-futurist genres. The anthology extends the discursive boundaries of science fiction by examining iconic writers like Octavia Butler, Walter Mosley, and Nalo Hopkinson through the lens of ecofeminist veganism, post-9/11 racial geopolitics, and the effect of the computer database on human voice and agency. Contributors expand what the field characterizes as speculative fiction by examining for the first time the vampire tropes present in Audre Lorde’s poetry, and by tracing her influence on the horror fiction of Jewelle Gomez. The collection moves beyond exploration of literary fiction to study the Afro-futurist representations of Blacks in comic books, in the Star Trek franchise, in African films, and in blockbuster films like , and .weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-1-4331-1241-6 / 978-1433112416 / 9781433112416

Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 26.04.2011

Seiten: 234

Auflage: 1

Reihe herausgegeben von Richard Greggory Johnson III, Rochelle Brock
Herausgegeben von Sandra Jackson, Julie E. Moody-Freeman

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