Contents: Sandra Jackson/Julie Moody-Freeman: Introduction. The Black Imagination and the Genres: Science Fiction, Futurism and the Speculative – Madhu Dubey: The Future of Race in Afro-Futurist Fiction – Adilifu Nama: Brave Black Worlds: Black Superheroes as Science Fiction Ciphers – Micheal Charles Pounds: «Explorers» - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – Alisa K. Braithwaite: Connecting to a Future Community: Storytelling, the Database, and Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber – Shannon Gibney: Science Fiction, Feminism and Blackness: The Multifaceted Import of Octavia Butler’s Work – Amie Breeze Harper: The Absence of Meat in Oankali Dietary Philosophy: An Eco-Feminist-Vegan Analysis of Octavia Butler’s Dawn – Alexis Pauline Gumbs: Speculative Poetics: Audre Lorde as Prologue for Queer Black Futurism – Marie-Luise Loeffler: «Why white people feel they got to mark us?»: Bodily Inscription, Healing and Maternal «Plots of Power» in Jewelle Gomez’s «Louisiana1850» – Brandon Kempner: The Unshakable Intent to Commit Genocide : Walter Mosely’s The Wave, 9/11 and Politics out of Context – Debbie Olson: Techno-Utopia and the Search for Saaraba (1989) – Stepahnie Larrieux: Towards a Black Science Fiction Cinema: The Slippery Signifier of Race and the Films of Will Smith.
Sandra Jackson is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and
Director of the Center for Black Diaspora at DePaul University. Her
areas of research and teaching include feminist theory, cultural
studies, utopian and dystopian literature and film, women’s
autobiography, gender and education. Previous books include
coedited works: The Black Body: Imagining, Writing, (Re)Reading;
Talking Back and Acting Out: Women Negotiating the Media Across
Cultures; and I’ve Got a Story to Tell: Identity and Place in the
Academy.
Julie E. Moody-Freeman is Associate Professor of African and Black
Diaspora Studies at DePaul University. Her work on Caribbean
literature and Black speculative fiction has appeared in the
journals African Identities, Macomere, Canadian Women’s Studies/les
cahiers de la femme; in The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora;
and in the edited collection Seeking the Self – Encountering the
Other: Diasporic Narrative and the Ethics of Representation.
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