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