Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory

by Marleen S. Barr

Book Overview

Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory, edited by Marleen S. Barr, is the first combined science fiction critical anthology and short story collection to focus upon black women via written and visual texts. The volume creates a dialogue with existing theories of Afro-Futurism in order to generate fresh ideas about how to apply race to science fiction studies in terms of gender. The contributors,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814210783
• ISBN13: 9780814210789
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.1"