The Black Imagination, Science Fiction and the Speculative - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 113886451X ISBN 13: 9781138864511

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Sandra Jackson is a Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at DePaul University.

Julie Moody-Freeman is an Associate Professor of African and Black Diaspora Studies at DePaul University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 113886451X
• ISBN 13: 9781138864511
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 172
• Editor: Jackson Sandra, Moody Freeman Julie