The Black Imagination, Science Fiction and the Speculative - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Black Imagination, Science Fiction and the Speculative write by Sandra Jackson. This book was released on 2013-10-18. The Black Imagination, Science Fiction and the Speculative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Black Imagination
The Black Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Black Imagination write by Sandra Jackson. This book was released on 2011. The Black Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Independence Day, I Robot, and I Am Legend.
Dark Matter
Dark Matter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dark Matter write by Sheree R. Thomas. This book was released on 2004-01-02. Dark Matter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dark Matter is the first and only series to bring together the works of black SF and fantasy writers. The first volume was featured in the "New York Times," which named it a Notable Book of the Year.
Speculative Blackness
Speculative Blackness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Speculative Blackness write by André M. Carrington. This book was released on 2016-02-29. Speculative Blackness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Speculative Blackness, André M. Carrington analyzes the highly racialized genre of speculative fiction—including science fiction, fantasy, and utopian works, along with their fan cultures—to illustrate the relationship between genre conventions in media and the meanings ascribed to blackness in the popular imagination. Carrington’s argument about authorship, fandom, and race in a genre that has been both marginalized and celebrated offers a black perspective on iconic works of science fiction. He examines the career of actor Nichelle Nichols, who portrayed the character Uhura in the original Star Trek television series and later became a recruiter for NASA, and the spin-off series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, set on a space station commanded by a black captain. He recovers a pivotal but overlooked moment in 1950s science fiction fandom in which readers and writers of fanzines confronted issues of race by dealing with a fictitious black fan writer and questioning the relevance of race to his ostensible contributions to the 'zines. Carrington mines the productions of Marvel comics and the black-owned comics publisher Milestone Media, particularly the representations of black sexuality in its flagship title, Icon. He also interrogates online fan fiction about black British women in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Harry Potter series. Throughout this nuanced analysis, Carrington theorizes the relationship between race and genre in cultural production, revealing new understandings of the significance of blackness in twentieth-century American literature and culture.
The Black Speculative Arts Movement
The Black Speculative Arts Movement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Black Speculative Arts Movement write by Reynaldo Anderson. This book was released on 2019-11-13. The Black Speculative Arts Movement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Black Speculative Arts Movement: Black Futurity, Art+Design is a 21st century statement on the intersection of the future of African people with art, culture, technology, and politics. This collection enters the global debate on the emerging field of Afrofuturism studies with an international array of scholars and artists contributing to the discussion of Black futurity in the 21st century. The contributors analyze and respond to the invisibility or mischaracterization of Black people in the popular imagination, in science fiction, and in philosophies of history.
