Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement - Couverture souple

Lavender III, Isiah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0814255566 ISBN 13 : 9780814255568

Editeur : Ohio State University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Growing out of the music scene, afrofuturism has emerged as an important aesthetic through films such as Black Panther and Get Out. While the significance of these sonic and visual avenues for afrofuturism cannot be underestimated, literature remains fundamental to understanding its full dimensions. Isiah Lavender’s Afrofuturism Rising explores afrofuturism as a narrative practice that enables users to articulate the interconnection between science, technology, and race across centuries.

By engaging with authors as diverse as Phillis Wheatley, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Samuel R. Delany Jr., Pauline Hopkins, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright, Afrofuturism Rising extends existing scholarly conversations about who creates and what is created via science fiction. Through a trans-historical rereading of texts by these authors as science fiction, Lavender highlights the ways black experience in America has always been an experience of spatial and temporal dislocation akin to science fiction. Compelling and ambitious in scope, Afrofuturism Rising redefines both science fiction and literature as a whole.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Isiah Lavender III is Associate Professor of English at Louisiana State University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ohio State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0814255566
• ISBN 13: 9780814255568
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 244
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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