Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century

Name: Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century
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ISBN: 9780814214459

ISBN-10: 0814214452

ISBN-13: 9780814214459

Edition: 2020

Authors: Lisa Yaszek, Isiah Lavender III

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In Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century, eminent contributors pay tribute to Afrofuturism as a powerful and evolving aesthetic practice that communicates the experience of science, technology, and race across centuries, continents, and cultures. While Ryan Coogler and Janelle Monï¿½e may have helped bring the genre into contemporary pop consciousness, it in fact extends back to the writing of eighteenth-century poet Phyllis Wheatley and has continued in the work of Samuel R. Delany, Octavia E. Butler, N. K. Jemisin, and many others. In examining this heritage, contributors in this volume question generic boundaries, recover lost artists and introduce new ones, and explore how…

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List price: $99.95
Copyright year: 2020
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Publication date: 8/20/2020
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Isiah Lavender III, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is an assistant professor of English at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Race in American Science Fiction.