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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"black speculative"”.
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Imagine Another World: A Philosophical Approach to Black Speculative Arts and Literature
… in horror and science fiction in contemporary Black cultural and theoretical projects. This work reads into the expressed conditions of Blackness that yearns for and that builds other material or immaterial realities. Worldbuilding is a way for collective Black imaginations to experience …
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The memory of mythmaking: Transgenerational trauma and disability as a collective experience in Afrofuturist storytelling
… disability, and myth, particularly within Black speculative fiction, Afrofuturism, and Africanfuturism. Through the lenses of critical race theory, trauma theory, disability studies, and feminist theory, I will closely analyze how myth functions across five Black speculative fiction novels. …
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Radicalism in America's "Industrial Jungle": Metaphors of the Primitive and the Industrial in Activist Texts
… four twentieth-century radical movements: the Black Panther Party, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, the socialist tradition of taking industrial jobs, and the work of contemporary anarchists. Comparisons between these movements and Black Arts Movement texts, neo-slave narrative …
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Abolitionist Futures: Black Cultural Imagination at the End of the World
<p>My dissertation, Abolitionist Futures: Black Cultural Imagination at the End of the World, examines abolitionist imagination in the cultural production of black American writers, creatives, activists, and thinkers. From its inception in the nineteenth century, abolitionism has evolved from a …
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Source of All Hair, Wearer of All Socks
… and digital media to portray larger-than-life Black, female characters taking up space in real and imagined worlds. In a series of mural installations, I present a subjective Black woman’s fairytale to process interlocking structures of oppression. Centered in the speculative practice of the …
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The Seventh Plateau
<p>Inspired by various cultural elements from throughout the African Diaspora, <em>The Seventh Plateau</em> is a young adult fantasy novel set on the fictional planet Aeris. The story follows the journey of an unlikely group of allies who embark on a mission to stop an ancient evil from destroying …