Afro-Future Females : Black Writer's Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory / edited by Marleen S. Barr.
Material type: TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2008Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9780814271865
- Science-Fiction
- Frauenliteratur
- Science-Fiction-Literatur
- Schwarze
- Women and literature
- Science fiction, American
- American fiction -- Women authors
- American fiction -- African American authors
- Femmes et litterature -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 21e siecle
- Femmes et litterature -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siecle
- Roman americain -- Auteurs noirs americains -- Histoire et critique
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- Science fiction, American -- History and criticism
- Science fiction, American
- Schwarze
- USA
- USA
- United States
All at one point conveys the point, period: or, black science fiction is bursting out all over -- Imaginative encounters / Hortense J. Spillers -- Black to the future: Afro-Futurism 1.0 / Mark Dery -- On the other side of the glass: the television roots of Black science fiction / Marleen S. Barr -- Becoming animal in Black women's science fiction / Madhu Dubey -- God is change: persuasion and pragmatic utopianism in Octavia E. Butler's earthseed novels / Ellen Peel -- Tananarive Due and Nalo Hopkinson revisit the reproduction of mothering: legacies of the past and strategies for the future / Alcena Madeline Davis Rogan -- Close encounters between traditional and nontraditional science fiction: Octavia E. Butler's Kindred and Gayl Jone's Corregidora sing the time travel blues / Jennifer E. Henton -- Beyond the history we know: Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Nisi Shawl, and Jarla Tangh rethink science fiction tradition / De Witt Douglas Kilgore -- Bubbling champagne power trip / Nisi Shawl -- Of course people can fly / Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu -- Carla Johnson/Jarla Tangh: a close encounter with my pseudonym / Jarla Tangh -- The book of Martha / Octavia E. Butler -- Double Consciousness / Andrea Hairston -- Dynamo Hum / Nisi Shawl -- The ferryman / Sheree R. Thomas -- Herbal / Nalo Hopkinson -- On Octavia E. Butler / Tananarive Due -- Can a brother get some love? sociobiology in images of African-American sensuality in contemporary cinema: or, why we'd better the hell claim Vin Diesel as our own / Steven Barnes -- A conversation with Samuel R. Delany about sex, gender, race, writing-and science fiction / Samuel R. Delany and Carl Freedman -- Black science faction: an interview with Kevin Willmott, director and writer of CSA, the confederate states of America / Kevin Willmott and Marleen S. Barr -- Octavia's healing power: a tribute to the late great Octavia E. Butler / Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu -- The big bang: or, the inception of scholarship about black women science fiction writers / Marleen S. Barr -- Connecting metamorphoses: Italo Calvino's Mrs. Ph (i)NKo and I, Dr. Ph(d)SalvagGlo / Ruth Salvaggio.
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