This book expands the discourse as well as the nature of critical
commentary on science fiction, speculative fiction and futurism -
literary and cinematic by Black writers. The range of topics
include the following: black superheroes; issues and themes in
selected works by Octavia Butler; selected work of Nalo Hopkinson;
the utopian and dystopian impulse in the work of W.E. B. Du Bois
and George Schuyler; Derrick Bell's Space Traders; the Star Trek
Franchise; female protagonists through the lens of race and gender
in the Alien and Predator film franchises; science fiction in the
Caribbean Diaspora; commentary on select African films regarding
near-future narratives; as well as a science fiction/speculative
literature writer's discussion of why she writes and how. This book
was published as a special issue of African Identities: An
International Journal.
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