Afrofuturism, science fiction, and the history of the future

Lisa Yaszek

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Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction American Literature and Culture Afro-Latin American Studies

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In his introduction to the 1989 re-issue of Invisible Man Ralph Ellison provocatively notes, “a piece of science fiction is the last thing I expected to write” (xv). Both this claim and the way Ell...

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