| The Black Imagination, Science Fiction and the Speculative Contributor(s): Jackson, Sandra (Editor), Moody Freeman, Julie (Editor) |
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ISBN: 113886451X ISBN-13: 9781138864511 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $60.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 813.087 |
| Physical Information: 172 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book expands the discourse as well as the nature of critical commentary on science fiction, speculative fiction and futurism - literary and cinematic by Black writers. The range of topics include the following: black superheroes; issues and themes in selected works by Octavia Butler; selected work of Nalo Hopkinson; the utopian and dystopian impulse in the work of W.E. B. Du Bois and George Schuyler; Derrick Bell's Space Traders; the Star Trek Franchise; female protagonists through the lens of race and gender in the Alien and Predator film franchises; science fiction in the Caribbean Diaspora; commentary on select African films regarding near-future narratives; as well as a science fiction/speculative literature writer's discussion of why she writes and how. This book was published as a special issue of African Identities: An International Journal. |