Afrofuturism rising : the literary prehistory of a movement / Isiah Lavender III.

"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...

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Main Author: Lavender, Isiah, III (Author)
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2019]
Series:New suns: race, gender, and sexuality in the speculative.
Subjects:
Afrofuturism.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Science fiction > Social aspects.
American literature > African American authors.
Science fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:xi, 230 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
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.