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Journal articles on the topic "Black speculative fiction"

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Wanzo, Rebecca. "The Unspeakable Speculative, Spoken." American Literary History 31, no. 3 (2019): 564–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajz028.

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Abstract Exploring various absences—what is or should not be represented in addition to the unspeakable in terms of racial representations—is the through line of three recent books about race and speculative fictions. Mark C. Jerng’s Racial Worldmaking: The Power of Popular Fiction (2018) argues racial worldmaking has been at the center of speculative fictions in the US. In Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination (2017), Kristen Lillvis takes one of the primary thematic concerns of black speculative fictions—the posthuman—and rereads some of the most canonical works in the black f

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Gomez, Jewelle. "Speculative Fiction and Black Lesbians." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 18, no. 4 (1993): 948–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/494852.

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Hurley, Jessica. "Empire, Infrastructural Violence, and the Speculative Turn." College Literature 50, no. 2-3 (2023): 383–409. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lit.2023.a902223.

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Abstract: This essay analyzes the function of speculative fiction in the ecosystem of literary attempts to understand the imbrication of infrastructure with racial and colonial violence. While the task of making infrastructural violence apprehensible may seem more suited to realism (the literary mode designed to make legible "what is"), I trace a largely unrecognized strand in Johan Galtung's original theorization of structural violence to argue for the importance of "what is not": the potential realizations of human flourishing that are foreclosed by empire's infrastructural violence—potentia

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Klassen, Shamika, and Casey Fiesler. "The Stoop." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 7, GROUP (2022): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3567567.

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Inspired by previous research examining the challenges and benefits of Black Twitter (a community gathered on a platform used by Black people but not created by or for them), this design fiction presents a fictional study of a successful yet speculative social media platform named The Stoop. We envision this digital space as one that a Black woman created and a predominantly Black team designed and developed. Imagining what future online communities of marginalized people could be based on current struggles and shortcomings provides the inspiration for this design fiction. Proactively addressi

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Toliver, S. R. "Can I Get a Witness? Speculative Fiction as Testimony and Counterstory." Journal of Literacy Research 52, no. 4 (2020): 507–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1086296x20966362.

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Drawing on Black feminist/womanist storytelling and the three-dimensional narrative inquiry space, this article showcases how one Black girl uses speculative fiction as testimony and counterstory, calling for readers to bear witness to her experiences and inviting witnesses to respond to the negative experiences she faces as a Black girl in the United States. I argue that situating speculative fiction as counterstory creates space for Black girls to challenge dominant narratives and create new realities. Furthermore, I argue that considering speculative fiction as testimony provides another wa

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Morris, Susana M. "The Black Speculative Tradition." Studies in the Novel 56, no. 4 (2024): 444–50. https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2024.a948007.

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Abstract: Far too often the speculative novel is erroneously understood as a primarily white and Western literary tradition; however, the truth is far more complex and interesting. While this intervention is well known in certain academic circles, thanks to literary historians like Isiah Lavender and Lisa Yaszek, those who do not study speculative fiction are often ignorant of the genre's actual history. This essay debunks this common inaccuracy in key ways. Foregrounding the work of authors from Martin Delany and Pauline Hopkins to Octavia E. Butler and Rivers Solomon, among others, this essa

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Wade, Jasmine H. "Embracing the Sapphire: Black Women’s Rage in Speculative Fiction." CLA Journal 65, no. 1 (2022): 106–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/caj.2022.0010.

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Newland, Courttia. "Catching The Spirit: Black British Explorations In Speculative Fiction." Callaloo 43, no. 1 (2025): 34–40. https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962542.

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Cowley, Matthew, and Tianna Dowie-Chin. "“Racism is alive and well”: (Re)visiting the University of Florida’s Black Student Union’s history through composite counterstorytelling." Culture, Education, and Future 2, no. 1 (2024): 56–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.70116/2980274117.

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This study centers on the origins of the Black Student Union (BSU) during the late 1960s and early 1970s at the University of Florida (UF) presented as a speculative fiction composite counterstory. The story presented in this manuscript serves as a cautionary tale of what the future of higher education will be, if white supremacy persists, even when white people will no longer represent a numerical majority. Though the findings utilized in this piece are decades old, we offer the current climate of public institutions and DEI initiatives to emphasize the importance of counterstories that under

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Stephens, Cowley Matthew Paul, and Tianna Dowie-Chin. ""Racism is alive and well":(Re)visiting the University of Florida's Black Student Union's history through Composite Counterstorytelling." Culture, Education, and Future 2, no. 1 (2024): 64–86. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11108160.

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This study centers on the origins of the Black Student Union (BSU) during the late 1960s and early 1970s at the University of Florida (UF) presented as a speculative fiction composite counterstory. The story presented in this manuscript serves as a cautionary tale of what the future of higher education will be, if white supremacy persists, even when white people will no longer represent a numerical majority. Though the findings utilized in this piece are decades old, we offer the current climate of public institutions and DEI initiatives to emphasize the importance of counterstories that under

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Black speculative fiction"

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Jones, Esther. "Traveling discourses: subjectivity, space and spirituality in black women’s speculative fictions in the Americas." The Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1155665383.

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Keith, Zackary. "The Dreams of Metanoia: The Advent Foreigner: A Creative Thesis Based on a True Narrative of the Forgotten American War of Racist Imperialism." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/630.

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This creative project’s ambition is to craft an original novel called The Dreams of Metanoia: The Advent Foreigner. The Dreams of Metanoia is initially influenced by The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a true narrative by Rebecca Skloot. Henrietta and her family were subjected to Jim Crow scientific racism. Henrietta, a black woman with cervical cancer, had her cells removed and cultivated by John Hopkins doctors without any consent. The doctors discovered that Henrietta’s cells continued to divide relentlessly outside her body. They then sold them to other researchers without their knowledg

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Jones, Esther L. "Traveling discourses subjectivity, space and spirituality in black women's speculative fictions in the Americas /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1155665383.

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Calbert, Tonisha Marie. "(Re)Writing Apocalypse: Race, Gender, and Radical Change in Black Apocalyptic Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1593596843453299.

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Benavente, Gabriel. "Reimagining Movements: Towards a Queer Ecology and Trans/Black Feminism." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3186.

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This thesis seeks to bridge feminist and environmental justice movements through the literature of black women writers. These writers create an archive that contribute towards the liberation of queer, black, and transgender peoples. In the novel Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler constructs a world that highlights the pervasive effects of climate change. As climate change expedites poverty, Americans begin to blame others, such as queer people, for the destruction of their country. Butler depicts the dangers of fundamentalism as a response to climate change, highlighting an imperative for

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Harris-Birtill, Rosemary. "Mitchell's mandalas : mapping David Mitchell's textual universe." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12255.

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This study uses the Tibetan mandala, a Buddhist meditation aid and sacred artform, as a secular critical model by which to analyse the complete fictions of author David Mitchell. Discussing his novels, short stories and libretti, this study maps the author's fictions as an interconnected world-system whose re-evaluation of secular belief in galvanising compassionate ethical action is revealed by a critical comparison with the mandala's methods of world-building. Using the mandala as an interpretive tool to critique the author's Buddhist influences, this thesis reads the mandala as a metaphysic

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Persson, Simon, and Simon Larsson. "Smarttelefonen: En blick mot framtiden : när vetenskapliga fakta, design och fiktion blir ett." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-18088.

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I den här undersökningen utforskar vi hur användande av smarttelefoner skulle kunna se ut inom en nära framtid. Med designfiktion som grundpelare och förhållningssätt, verklighetsproducerar vi diegetiska prototyper som med sina utseendemässiga egenskaper och funktionaliteter, berättar om en möjlig framtida värld av smarttelefonanvändning. De diegetiska prototyperna är sprungna ur ett fiktivt scenario, baserad på tidigare forskning om aspekter kring användning av smarttelefoner, smarttelefonens tekniska utveckling och dess estimerade roll i en nära framtid. Med Scenariometoden, en egentillverka

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Books on the topic "Black speculative fiction"

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Hinton, KaaVonia, and Karen Michele Chandler. Teaching Black Speculative Fiction. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003391296.

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Jones, Esther L. Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137514691.

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Thaler, Ingrid. Black Atlantic speculative fictions: Octavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson. Routledge, 2009.

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Thaler, Ingrid. Black Atlantic speculative fictions: Octavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson. Routledge, 2010.

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Thaler, Ingrid. Black Atlantic speculative fictions: Octavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson. Routledge, 2009.

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Thaler, Ingrid. Black Atlantic speculative fictions: Octavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson. Routledge, 2009.

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Thaler, Ingrid. Black Atlantic Speculative Fictions. Routledge, 2014.

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Betti, Elena, and Eugen Bacon. Black Moon: Graphic Speculative Flash Fiction. IFWG Publishing International, 2020.

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Anderson, Reynaldo, and Clinton R. Fluker, eds. Black Speculative Arts Movement. Lexington Books, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978731776.

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The Black Speculative Arts Movement: Black Futurity, Art+Design is a 21st century statement on the intersection of the future of African people with art, culture, technology, and politics. This collection enters the global debate on the emerging field of Afrofuturism studies with an international array of scholars and artists contributing to the discussion of Black futurity in the 21st century. The contributors analyze and respond to the invisibility or mischaracterization of Black people in the popular imagination, in science fiction, and in philosophies of history.

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Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak+black Fiction. Fremantle Press, 2022.

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Book chapters on the topic "Black speculative fiction"

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Vlach, Saba Khan. "The Responsibility to Remember." In Teaching Black Speculative Fiction. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003391296-2.

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Sullivan, Danielle Kubasko. "Resilience, Resistance, and Healing in Tomi Adeyemi's Children of Blood and Bone." In Teaching Black Speculative Fiction. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003391296-7.

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Lopez Kershen, Julianna. "Exploring the Complexities of Environmental Disaster, Justice, and Racism in Ninth Ward." In Teaching Black Speculative Fiction. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003391296-1.

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Stevens, Toni S. "Understanding by Design with Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber." In Teaching Black Speculative Fiction. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003391296-16.

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Prabir, Meghna. "Reading and Engaging with Kacen Callender's Moonflower through Intersectional Pedagogies." In Teaching Black Speculative Fiction. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003391296-3.

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Wade, Jasmine H. "The Monster or the (Wo)Man in Victor LaValle's Destroyer." In Teaching Black Speculative Fiction. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003391296-10.

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Enriquez, Colin. "“Slavery Was a Long Slow Process of Dulling”." In Teaching Black Speculative Fiction. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003391296-13.

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Cosner, Justin. "“I Serve the Spirits and I Heal the Living”." In Teaching Black Speculative Fiction. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003391296-15.

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Gottbrath, Jessica. "Illusions of Identity." In Teaching Black Speculative Fiction. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003391296-4.

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Flowers, Tiffany A. "Using a Historical Lens to Examine Agency in Mother of the Sea." In Teaching Black Speculative Fiction. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003391296-9.

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Conference papers on the topic "Black speculative fiction"

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McNair-Lee, Dowan. "I Am ... Hippolyta: How Speculative Fiction Calls This Black Woman Teacher Into a Currere Conversation." In 2023 AERA Annual Meeting. AERA, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/2016652.

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