Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement

Growing out of the music scene, afrofuturism has emerged as an important aesthetic through films such as...
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Author: Isiah Lavender III
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Language: English
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Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement by Lavender, Isiah, III

Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement

BD$71.36

Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement

BD$71.36
Author: Isiah Lavender III
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.


Author: Isiah Lavender III
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 10/09/2019
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780814255568

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


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