THE BLACK IMAGINATION, SCIENCE FICTION AND THE SPECULATIVE by Sandra Jackson (Editor), Julie Moody Freeman (Editor) ( 9781138864511 )

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THE BLACK IMAGINATION, SCIENCE FICTION AND THE SPECULATIVE

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Sandra Jackson (Editor), Julie Moody Freeman (Editor)

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4 March, 2015

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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.

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