{"product_id":"afro-future-females-black-writers-chart-science-fictions-newest-new-wave-trajectory-9780814255056","title":"Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory","description":"\u003ci\u003eAfro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory, \u003c\/i\u003eedited 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, including Hortense Spillers, Samuel R. Delany, Octavia E. Butler, and Steven Barnes, formulate a woman-centered Afro-Futurism by repositioning previously excluded fiction to redefine science fiction as a broader fantastic endeavor. They articulate a platform for scholars to mount a vigorous argument in favor of redefining science fiction to encompass varieties of fantastic writing and, therefore, to include a range of black women's writing that would otherwise be excluded. \u003ci\u003eAfro-Future Females\u003c\/i\u003e builds upon Barr's previous work in black science fiction and fills a gap in the literature. It is the first critical anthology to address the \"blackness\" of outer space fiction in terms of feminism, emphasizing that it is necessary to revise the very nature of a genre that has been constructed in such a way as to exclude its new black participants. Black science fiction writers alter genre conventions to change how we read and define science fiction itself. The work's main point: black science fiction is the most exciting literature of the nascent twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-4163772\"\u003eMarlene S. Barr\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/13\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 257\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814255056\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814255051\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT004260\"\u003eScience Fiction \u0026amp; Fantasy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarleen S. Barr \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eis a science fiction pioneer who broke new ground in feminist science fiction criticism with her book \u003ci\u003eAlien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory\u003c\/i\u003e. She won the Science Fiction Research Association Pilgrim Award for Lifetime Achievement in science fiction criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohio State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44317922296045,"sku":"9780814255056","price":47.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_5ff2a061-051c-4632-ad8a-be6c71cb6add.jpg?v=1697737380","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/afro-future-females-black-writers-chart-science-fictions-newest-new-wave-trajectory-9780814255056","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}