Part I. 1619-1903 : The Afrofuturist vista and the possibility of freedom. Hope and freedom technologies -- Black uprisings and the fight for the future -- Of alien abductions, pocket universes, trickster technologies, and slave narratives -- Part II. Afrofuturism and classic tw…
"Explores afrofuturism as a narrative practice by applying it to canonical African American literary texts by Wheatley, Walker, Douglass, Jacobs, Delany, Hopkins, Hurston, and Wright; trans-historically rereads the texts as science fiction and argues that the black experience of…