Afrofuturism, Science Fiction, and the Reinvention of African American Culture
abstract: Modern and contemporary African American writers employ science fiction in order to recast ideas on past, present, and future black culture. This dissertation examines Afrofuturism’s cultural aesthetics, which appropriate devices from science fiction and fantasy in order to revise, interro...
Other Authors: | Kim, Myungsung (Author) |
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Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
Language: | English |
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2017
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.45002 |
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