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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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Sueli, Meira Liebig (PPGLI/UEPB). "Teleportation in Beloved and Kindred: Magical Realism, Sacred Realism, or Black Enchantment?" International Journal of Business Management and Technology 7, no. 1 (2023): 44–52. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7687965.

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Speculative fiction has been a genre that is traditionally seen as a Western endeavor, reinforcing colonial ideas since its appearing. On the other hand, magical realism is a mode of writing commonly understood as subversive and decolonial. This study tries to understand the work of magical realism or even sacred realism within speculative fiction, especially as it relates to modes of decolonization. In a movement towards feminist decolonization, magical realism works through the speculative trope of physical transformation within Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Toni Morrison´s Belove

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March-Russell, Paul. "Glimpse: An Anthology of Black British Speculative Fiction, Leone Ross (ed.) (2022)." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 14, no. 1 (2024): 139–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict_00103_5.

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Weisbard, Eric. "Washed Ashore at High Tide: Music in Contemporary Science Fiction." American Literary History 35, no. 4 (2023): 1733–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad154.

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Abstract Music, with its strong role in the politics of memory, has socialized the linguistically speculative, giving science fiction a groove that bends prose for queer, Black, and indie-minded futurity.

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Godfrey, Mollie. "Facts and Fictions: Imperium in Imperio and the Politics of Early Black Speculative Fiction." CLA Journal 65, no. 1 (2022): 8–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/caj.2022.0003.

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Smith, Darryl A. "Droppin’ Science Fiction: Signification and Singularity in the Metapocalypse of Du Bois, Baraka, and Bell." Science Fiction Studies 34, Part 2 (2007): 201–19. https://doi.org/10.1525/sfs.34.2.201.

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This essay presents the argument that black speculative fiction can be construed generally as a dialectical riposte to the broader sf megatext. Specifically, I argue, black sf can be understood as refiguring in apocalyptic terms the so-called Spike (or Singularity) as posited by an important quarter of the Anglo-European sf tradition through the critical inversion of this idea by African-American sf. Consideration is also given to the relevant discourse on the posthuman within the genre. To these ends, I focus on the speculative fiction of W.E.B. Du Bois, Amiri Baraka, and Derrick Bell, paying

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Moore, Chamara. "Beyond Black Girlhood." Meridians 23, no. 2 (2024): 528–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15366936-11266364.

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Abstract How can Colson Whitehead’s combining of the generic and the strange in his Pulitzer Prize–winning speculative text The Underground Railroad be read as Afro-Pessimist? This essay seeks to illuminate the ways in which Whitehead’s novel provides narratives of self-making adjacent to coming of age while reinventing the historically white genre of the Bildungsroman for an intersectional identity in early America. Using Geta LeSeur’s The Black Bildungsroman as a point of reference, the author argues that because the protagonist Cora is a Black girl born and raised under chattel slavery and

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Capers, Bennett. "Afrofuturism and the Law." Critical Analysis of Law 9, no. 1 (2022): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/cal.v9i1.38262.

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Long before the film Black Panther captured the public’s imagination, the cultural critic Mark Dery coined the term “Afrofuturism” to describe “speculative fiction that treats African-American themes and addresses African-American concerns in the context of twentieth-century technoculture.” Since then, the term has been applied to speculative creatives as diverse as the pop artist Janelle Monae, the science fiction writer Octavia Butler, and the visual artist Nick Cave. But only recently have thinkers turned to how Afrofuturism might guide, and shape, law. This special issue, “Afrofuturism and

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Ziethen, Antje. "The black Mediterranean reimagined: Counterfactual world-building in francophone speculative fiction." International Journal of Francophone Studies 22, no. 1 (2019): 63–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijfs.22.1-2.63_1.

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Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene. "Falling Houses: Linden Hills and Poe's Legacy in Black Women's Speculative Fiction." Poe Studies 56, no. 1 (2023): 102–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/poe.2023.a909584.

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ABSTRACT: This article examines Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills (1986) as an intertextual response to Edgar Allan Poe's sinister aesthetic and gothicism that anticipates innovations in late-twentieth-century Black women's speculative fiction and horror. Naylor explores the corrosive side effects of Black capitalism and assimilation while simultaneously illustrating the conflicting desires and patriarchal aspirations embedded within Black nationalist rhetoric. Poe's gothic interiors and narrative perspective provide a template for how Naylor's chapters work as cautionary tales about the obsessive

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Monegato, Emanuele. "Segnalazioni." Altre Modernità, no. 31 (June 1, 2024): 605–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.54103/2035-7680/23504.

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Vera Gheno, Femminili Singolari +: il femminismo è nelle parole, Firenze, effequ, 2021, 191 pp. ISBN 979-128-026-340-7 Sami Schalk, Bodyminds Reimagined (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2018, 180 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-7073-4

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Cezanne, Imani. "#flyingwhileblack." Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 7, no. 4 (2018): 153–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2018.7.4.153.

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Originally intended as a performance piece, #flyingwhileback is a heart-wrenching, sometimes whimsical, recalling of the process of boarding an airplane in a Black body. Bordering the genre of speculative fiction, this poem illustrates one of the many ways the Black body is seen as violent and threatening by simply existing. The poem is intended to recount many of my own experiences as well as challenge the authority of the Transportation Security Administration and the ways they engage with Black people.

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Haloi, Neeharika. "Dystopian Mumbai: Futurism in Varun Thomas Mathew’s The Black Dwarves of the Good Little Bay." eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics 24, no. 1 (2025): 140–58. https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.24.1.2025.4128.

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Dystopian science fiction narratives often serve as a powerful medium for imagining the post-apocalyptic scenarios of contemporary socio-political realities. In the context of South Asia, the intersection of multinational capitalism and corrupt politics within a dystopian setting provides a poignant commentary on the region’s vulnerabilities and systemic injustices. Varun Thomas Mathew’s The Black Dwarves of the Good Little Bay (2019) is set in the year 2041, where the tropical city of Mumbai is seen to be recuperating in the aftermath of a massive flood that has led to the rehabilitation of i

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Sheppard, Samantha N. "Changing the Subject." Feminist Media Histories 8, no. 2 (2022): 14–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2022.8.2.14.

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This article examines Lynn Nottage's 2011 satirical play By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, which stages the life and legacy of the fictional Vera Stark, a Black maid and struggling actress during Hollywood's golden age. Nottage's play is inspired, in part, by the career of African American actress, singer, and dancer Theresa Harris. A tale of Black women's cinematic representation and social erasure, Nottage's fabrication of film history extends beyond the staged plot to also include a digital archive documenting Vera's celebrity and career. This article explores how Nottage's play and paratexts fa

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Dayal, Smaran. "Bodyminds reimagined: (dis)ability, race, and gender in black women’s speculative fiction." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 56, no. 6 (2020): 873–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2020.1786956.

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Taylor, Charlotte. "Bodyminds reimagined: (dis)ability, race, and gender in black women’s speculative fiction." Gender, Place & Culture 27, no. 9 (2019): 1366–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0966369x.2019.1705036.

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Boynton, Anthony Dwayne. "August Wilson, Afrofuturism, & Gem of the Ocean." Open Cultural Studies 2, no. 1 (2018): 374–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0034.

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Abstract August Wilson's Century Cycle is as much a theatrical experiment of black cultural history and sociology as it is one of storytelling. Though often considered a realist playwright, Wilson walks beyond the realist landscape into speculative and imagined ones in Gem of the Ocean. His investment in cultural critique and history enhances the possibility of an enriching analysis of his work as speculative fiction. This research project locates the ties between Wilson’s affinity with history and the creation of a dystopian Pittsburgh in the play. In Wilson’s work, set in 1904, the antebellu

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Davis, Jewel. "(De)constructing Imagination." Study and Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature 4, no. 1 (2020): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.15763/issn.2376-5275.2020.4.1.1-28.

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This critical content analysis examines representations of race and ethnicity in three young adult speculative novels: Children of Blood and Bone, The Black Witch, and Carve the Mark. This study utilizes Critical Race Theory to closely analyze texts to find and critique elements of bias and highlight counter-stories. Three major themes emerged from the analysis: BIPOC characters as dark aggressors, the construction of systems of oppression in worldbuilding, and the transformation of characters encountering racism. In the discussion and implication, the author argues for supporting counter-stor

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Ward, Megan. "Speculative Archival Methods and the Victorian Miser's Queer Hoard." Victorian Literature and Culture 53, no. 1 (2025): 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1060150325000026.

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Prompted by the gaps in archival evidence for writing histories of minoritized lives, scholars, archivists, and artists have increasingly adopted speculative archival methods. Shaped by queer temporalities, Black feminist epistemologies, and decolonial approaches, speculative approaches use techniques from narrative fiction to envision and reconstruct the past while acknowledging the limitations of documentary evidence. This essay seeks to expand the potential of fictional character for writing minoritized historical subjects by reexamining the institutionalization of archives in the nineteent

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Rogers, Dehanza. "Hostile Geographies." Girlhood Studies 15, no. 1 (2022): 34–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2022.150104.

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In this article, I engage in a parallel reading of the consumption of Black girlhood in speculative fiction in the television series The Passage, and the film The Girl with All the Gifts, and in the classroom. In these texts are nonconsensual attempts to harvest biological materials from Black girls, exhibiting the belief that Black bodies are utilitarian, at best, and meant for consumption. Like these narratives, the classroom consumes Black girls physically along with their futures. I explore how Black girl resistance disrupts such consumption and interrogate texts in which Black girls creat

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Aghoro, Nathalie. "Agency in the Afrofuturist Ontologies of Erykah Badu and Janelle Monáe." Open Cultural Studies 2, no. 1 (2018): 330–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0030.

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Abstract This article discusses the visual, textual, and musical aesthetics of selected concept albums (Vinyl/CD) by Afrofuturist musicians Erykah Badu and Janelle Monae. It explores how the artists design alternate projections of world/subject relations through the development of artistic personas with speculative background narratives and the fictional emplacement of their music within alternate cultural imaginaries. It seeks to establish that both Erykah Badu and Janelle Monae use the concept album as a platform to constitute their Afrofuturist artistic personas as fluid black female agents

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de Oliveira, Lucas Amaral, and Satty Flaherty-Echeverría. "Narrating Impossible Lives: Critical Fabulation in Brazilian Black-Authored Fiction." Portuguese Studies 40, no. 1 (2024): 63–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/port.00006.

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Abstract: This essay analyses Ana Maria Gonçalves' novel Um Defeito de Cor and Eliana Alvez Cruz's chronicle Um Vespeiro Histórico , highlighting the role of Black-authored fiction in reassessing the legacies of Slavery. By centring the narrative on the enslaved perspective, the authors employ critical fabulation to narrate the 'impossible lives' of Slavery, confronting the continuous erasure of the Black experience in Brazil. An analysis of the speculative processes within both works reveals their ability to 'think into the gaps' of the national archive, framing 'the racial event' as an arc o

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Westby-Nunn, Terry. "Complications and concessions: ecofeminism in Black Panther." Image & Text, no. 36 (May 5, 2022): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2617-3255/2022/n36a1.

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Ecofeminism is an interdisciplinary movement which dissects unhealthy power relations. Assessing the science fiction film Black Panther (Coogler 2018) through an ecofeminist lens offers up fruitful and complicated explorations. Ecofeminism focusses on the impacts of toxic hegemonies, and the paper evaluates representations of power in Black Panther. As the vibranium meteor gives Wakanda an advantage, vibranium functions as a speculative symbol for privilege, and the responsibilities that come with the power of privileged positioning are interrogated. An analysis of the representations of cultu

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Sansonetti, Annie. "Black Trans Girlhood, Healing, and Transformative Justice in Akwaeke Emezi's PET." QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 9, no. 3 (2022): 35–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.14321/qed.9.issue-3.0035.

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Abstract In the fantasy/speculative fiction young adult novel PET (2019), Akwaeke Emezi's fifteen-year-old Black trans girl protagonist, Jam, disrupts the traditional socio-cultural and medico-legal hindrances to Black trans girlhood's “liveness” by actively devising and participating in carefully staged scenes of intracommunal healing and transformative justice. With Jam's knowledge, history, and experience among Black people and community as a guiding light, this article argues that PET serves as a counternarrative to the erasure of Black trans girls in the Black radical tradition and inspir

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Babb, Valerie. "The Past is Never Past: The Call and Response between Marvel's Black Panther and Early Black Speculative Fiction." African American Review 53, no. 2 (2020): 95–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/afa.2020.0015.

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Brown, Canaan J. "Vanishing: Freedom, erasure and transcendence in Black magical realist art." JAWS: Journal of Arts Writing by Students 9, no. 1 (2023): 61–73. https://doi.org/10.1386/jaws_00055_1.

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This article explores the transformative power of ‘vanishing’ in Black magical realist art, focusing on artists who reframe and critically engage with erasure, displacement and misrepresentation to critique colonial legacies and racial oppression. By examining works by Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Alberta Whittle, John Akomfrah, Ellen Gallagher, Hew Locke and others, the article highlights how Black artists use magical realism to confront and reimagine histories of displacement and invisibility. The trope of vanishing, often seen as erasure, is reframed as a pathway to freedom from oppressive narrativ

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Goffe, Tao Leigh. "Stolen Life, Stolen Time." South Atlantic Quarterly 121, no. 1 (2022): 109–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-9561573.

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Working on the B-side of time, this essay considers the way Afro-futurism often configures time as nonlinear and entangled. In doing so, it looks at contemporary apocalyptic forms of storytelling, Watchmen, Parasite, Black Mother, Exit West, and On Such a Full Sea. The way the timeline of racial capitalism is represented in each reveals how blackness affects narrative time and historical time. In addition to the stolen land (dispossession of Native sovereignty) and the stolen life (African enslavement) that inaugurated the Americas, stolen time is a critical axis of analysis. Speculative ficti

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Hice-Fromille, Theresa, and Sarah Papazoglakis. "Afrofuturist Values for the Metaverse (Extended Abstract)." Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society 7 (October 16, 2024): 609. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aies.v7i1.31662.

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Many emerging technologies, such as the immersive VR and AR devices forming the metaverse, are not just reminiscent of but inspired by devices found in popular science fiction texts. Yet, the stories that these technologies are drawn from do not often center marginalized communities and people of color. In this article, we propose that builders and users of these technologies turn to diverse creative texts as inspiration for the ethical codes that will shape the ways that these technologies are built and used. A study of 39 speculative fiction texts, including 20 that we identified as Afrofutu

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Boynton, A. D. "Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)Ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk." CLA Journal 64, no. 1 (2021): 179–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/caj.2021.0013.

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Rovak, Angela. "Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction, by Sami Schalk." Women's Studies 47, no. 7 (2018): 761–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2018.1518622.

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Bailey, Constance R. "Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk." Studies in the Novel 52, no. 3 (2020): 364–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2020.0041.

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Bailey, Moya. "Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk." Feminist Formations 30, no. 3 (2018): 220–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ff.2018.0051.

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Patton, Venetria K. "Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 65, no. 3 (2019): 563–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2019.0041.

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Shanice, Brittany Clarke. "AFROFUTURISM & POSSIBILITIES FOR DECOLONIZING THE ACADEMY." Revista Nós: Cultura, Estética e Linguagens ◆ ISSN 2448-1793 04, no. 02 (2019): 94–109. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5358901.

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Historic and contemporary acts of racial oppression has made casual abuse against black and brown bodies more visible, which carry implications for higher education & student affairs. In addition, a Eurocentric lens often dominates pedagogy and curriculum in U.S. higher education. Those who are in the struggle for equity and racial justice need to imagine that liberation is possible. This essay reviews and examines conceptual issues, definitions, and possibilities that center Afrofuturism and racial oppression. Afrofuturism can serve as a medium of techno-culture to explicitly create an an

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Mann, Justin Louis. "Pessimistic futurism: Survival and reproduction in Octavia Butler’s Dawn." Feminist Theory 19, no. 1 (2017): 61–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464700117742874.

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This article examines the critical work of Octavia Butler’s speculative fiction novel Dawn, which follows Lilith Ayapo, a black American woman who is rescued by an alien species after a nuclear war destroys nearly all life on Earth. Lilith awakens 250 years later and learns that the aliens have tasked her with reviving other humans and repopulating the planet. In reframing Reagan-era debates about security and survival, Butler captured the spirit of ‘pessimistic futurism’, a unique way of thinking and writing black female sexuality, reproduction and survival. Suturing concepts central to both

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Casmier, Stephen. "Black Panther , Afrofuturism, and the (Erased) Memory of Patrice Lumumba." Black Camera 16, no. 2 (2025): 3–21. https://doi.org/10.2979/blc.00054.

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Abstract: Early film reviews of Ryan Coogler's Black Panther (2018) labeled it an example of "Afrofuturism." Yet, scholars define Afrofuturism and Black Speculative Fiction as embracing works that actively decolonize fantasies, the future, and the imagination. Coogler's Black Panther , however, steps into the field of remembered and forgotten history and participates in an ordering of the consumerist Western imagination that helps to interpret the facts of history and fulfill projected desires. It imaginatively repeats the sixty-year-old Cold War "plot" where the realpolitik of Western power d

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Lie, Crystal Yin. "“The Real Requires the Fantastic”: Teaching Comics, Race, and Disability in the Era of Black Lives Matter." Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 18, no. 3 (2024): 273–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/jlcds.2024.12.

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The dual pandemics of COVID-19 and systemic racism bring into sharp relief the urgent need to integrate anti-racism into the study and praxis of graphic medicine. The article’s approach to “cripping graphic medicine” brings together Black feminist disability studies and comics studies, foregrounding Black comics theorists and creators. The focus is on Damian Duffy and John Jennings’s graphic adaptations of Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred and Victor LaValle’s Destroyer , examining how they employ non-realist conventions of speculative fiction and horror to represent racial injustice and the body in

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Sum, Robert Kipkoech, Justus Kizito Siboe Makokha, and Speranza Ndege. "Afrofuturism and Quest for Black Redemption in Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix." East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences 5, no. 1 (2022): 328–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.37284/eajass.5.1.752.

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Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix follows the trajectory of many Afrofuturist texts in the exploration of the Black fortunes in the contested futuristic space. Using science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction, Okorafor appropriate futuristic space as a locale for negotiating the redemption of black bodies. She also contextualises the experiences of Africans or people of African origin in known world history. This, apparently, show that the futuristic space is neither detached from the past nor the contemporary period but rather it is an opportunity to map an optimistic future through

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Simpson, Candace Y. "For My Daughter Kakuya: Imagining Children at the End(s) of the World." Religions 14, no. 9 (2023): 1204. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel14091204.

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The COVID-19 pandemic revealed individual and institutional anxieties about the apocalypse. Pastors and activists alike turned to the depiction of the apocalypse in popular media to describe the urgency of decisive action. Implicitly, these depictions offer a curious method for engaging and imagining children. Assata Shakur writes compelling poetry in her autobiography about her hopes for the world. In one poem, entitled For My Daughter Kakuya, I argue that Shakur engages in Afrofuturist speculative fiction as she envisions a future world for her daughter. This paper explores how writers livin

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Steinskog, Erik. "Fremmede her på jorden - Afrofuturistiske spekulationer." K&K - Kultur og Klasse 43, no. 119 (2015): 147–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/kok.v43i119.22249.

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The last couple of decades have seen an increase in research and artistic practices around afrofuturism. Taking the cue from Mark Dery’s article “Black to the Future,” where he coins the term, the article points to different aspects of afrofuturism. The music and philosophy of Sun Ra is an important point of departure, having ancient Egypt and a future outer space as orientation. At the same time there are, as Dery makes clear, other dimensions at stake. Following Dery’s argument that African Americans and other Afrodiasporic citizens in a specific sense are descendent from alien abductees, th

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Isler, Jedidah C., Natasha V. Berryman, Anicca Harriot, Chrystelle L. Vilfranc, Léolène J. Carrington, and Danielle N. Lee. "Defining the Flow—Using an Intersectional Scientific Methodology to Construct a VanguardSTEM Hyperspace." Genealogy 5, no. 1 (2021): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy5010008.

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#VanguardSTEM is an online community and platform that centers the experiences of women, girls, and non-binary people of color in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. We publish original and curated content, using cultural production, to include a multiplicity of identities as worthy of recognition and thus redefine STEM identity and belonging. #VanguardSTEM is rooted firmly in Queer, Black feminisms which delineate that the experiences and critiques of Black women matter and that these insights can foster a restorative and regenerative construction of the cultures

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