The black imagination, science fiction and the speculative / edited by Sandra Jackson, Julie Moody Freeman.

• Editorial note : the genre of science fiction and the black imagination / Sandra Jackson and Julie Moody-Freeman -- Brave black worlds : black superheroes as science fiction ciphers / Adilifu Nama -- Arboreal dialogics : an ecocritical exploration of Octavia Butler's Dawn / Andrew Plisner -- But that's just mad : reading the utopian impulse in Dark princess and Black empire / Amor Kohli -- Vanishing bodies : "race" and technology in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight robber / Elizabeth Boyle -- Earthling dreams in black and white : space, representation and US racial politics in "The space traders" / Julie Moody-Freeman -- "Explorers" : Star Trek : Deep Space Nine / Michael Charles Pounds -- Terrans, extraterrestrials, warriors and the last (wo)man standing / Sandra Jackson -- Cognition's warp : African films on near-future risk / Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi -- Organic fantasy / Nnedi Okorafor.

Ämnesord

American fiction  -- African American authors -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Blacks in literature.  (LCSH)

Blacks in motion pictures.  (LCSH)

Blacks  -- Race identity. (LCSH)

Futurism (Literary movement)  (LCSH)

Science fiction  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

African Americans  -- Intellectual life. (LCSH)

Klassifikation

PS153.N5 (LCC)

PS374.S35 (LCC)

813.0876209 (DDC)