The Black Imagination, Science Fiction and the Speculative
This book expands the discourse as well as the nature of critical commentary on science fiction, speculative fiction and futurism a 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 Bellas 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 writeras discussion of why she writes and how. This book was published as a special issue of African Identities: An International Journal.Because the group were labelled mutants and treated as social outcasts, as a young black man Diaz felt he shared an affinity with the comic book superhero characters because of his own racial status that stigmatised him as an outsider to anbsp;...
| Title | : | The Black Imagination, Science Fiction and the Speculative |
| Author | : | Sandra Jackson, Julie Moody Freeman |
| Publisher | : | Routledge - 2013-10-18 |
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