Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement

Hope and freedom technologies -- Black uprisings and the fight for the future -- Of alien abductions, pocket universes, trickster technologies, and slave narratives -- Black bodies in space: Zora Neale Thurston's Their eyes were watching god -- "Metallically black": Bigger Thomas and the black apocalyptic vision of Richard Wright's Native son -- Racial warfare, radical afrofuturism, and John A. Williams's Captain Blackman -- Conclusion: Into the black-o-sphere.Item embargoed for five year