W.E.B. Du Bois’s Proto-Afrofuturist Short Fiction: «The Comet»

This article examines W.E.B. Du Bois’s short story «The Comet» in the light of the Afrofuturist movement, a transnational and interdisciplinary, theoretical and literary-cultural enterprise that has endeavoured to rethink the history of Black civilisation in order to imagine a different, better,...

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Main Author: Elia, Adriano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari 2016-12-01
Series:Il Tolomeo
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Online Access:http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/riviste/il-tolomeo/2016/1/web-du-boiss-proto-afrofuturist-short-fiction-the-/