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Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women's Fiction
Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women's Fiction
Paperback - English

How do Black women writing speculative fiction explore the use of memory as a potential strategy for liberation? In Black Speculative Feminisms, Cassandra L. Jones looks at the writings of Octavia E. Butler, Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, Rasheedah Phillips, and Nnedi Okorafor to chart those moments where characters harness, or fail to harness, the power of memory. These instances transform memory--individual and collective, bodily and archival--from passive recollection into direct or indirect social action. Taking a Black feminist approach, Jones addresses several emancipatory themes within Afrofuturism: the decolonization of time that can be found in fiction employing non-Western and non-linear expressions of time, exploring futurity and the projection of a full range of expressions of Black humanity into anticipated futures, and imagining new worlds and novel approaches to old problems. Drawing on critical fabulation and restorative justice, she forwards restorative fabulation as the mechanism by which speculative fiction offers a healing site for authors and readers to process generational trauma while imagining more equitable futures.

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ISBN
0814259294
EAN
9780814259290
Publisher
Publication Date
01 Nov 2024
Pages
120
Weight (kg)
0.19
Dimensions (cm)
22.9 x 15.2 x 0.7
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