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  • Race in American Science Fiction

    by Isiah Lavender ...
    A critical examination of Blackness and race in the predominantly White genre.Noting that science fiction is characterized by an investment in the proliferation of racial difference, Isiah Lavender III argues that racial alterity is fundamental to the genre's narrative strategy. Race in American Science Fiction offers a systematic classification of ways that race appears and how it is silenced in ... Read more

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  • Race, Law, and Speculative Fiction

    Future Pasts

    by Isiah Lavender III ...
    An analysis of US science fiction, through the lens of critical race theory, that illuminates how the genre offers new directions for serious appraisals of race and racism between yesterday, today, and tomorrowIn Race, Law, and Speculative Fiction, Isiah Lavender III takes seriously the theoretical, stylistic, and rhetorical possibilities inherent in the genre of science fiction toward challenging ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Afrofuturism Rising

    The Literary Prehistory of a Movement

    by Isiah Lavender III ...
    Series series New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
    Growing out of the music scene, afrofuturism has emerged as an important aesthetic through films such as Black Panther and Get Out. While the significance of these sonic and visual avenues for afrofuturism cannot be underestimated, literature remains fundamental to understanding its full dimensions. Isiah Lavender’s Afrofuturism Rising explores afrofuturism as a narrative practice that enables ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Dis-Orienting Planets

    Racial Representations of Asia in Science Fiction

    Edited by Isiah Lavender III ...
    Contributions by Suparno Banerjee, Cait Coker, Jeshua Enriquez, Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Malisa Kurtz, Stephanie Li, Bradford Lyau, Uppinder Mehan, Graham J. Murphy, Baryon Tensor Posadas, Amy J. Ransom, Robin Anne Reid, Haerin Shin, Stephen Hong Sohn, Takayuki Tatsumi, and Timothy J. YamamuraIsiah Lavender III's Dis-Orienting Planets amplifies critical issues surrounding the racial and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Isiah Lavender III, Ph.D. Lisa Yaszek ...
    Series series New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
    Finalist, 2021 Locus AwardIn Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century, eminent contributors pay tribute to Afrofuturism as a powerful and evolving aesthetic practice that communicates the experience of science, technology, and race across centuries, continents, and cultures. While Ryan Coogler and Janelle Monáe may have helped bring the genre into contemporary pop consciousness, it in ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson

    Edited by Isiah Lavender III ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    A key figure in contemporary speculative fiction, Jamaican-born Canadian Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) is the first Black queer woman as well as the youngest person to be named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Her Caribbean-inspired narratives—Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, The New Moon’s Arms, The Chaos, and Sister Mine—project complex ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Black and Brown Planets

    The Politics of Race in Science Fiction

    Edited by Isiah Lavender III ...
    Black and Brown Planets embarks on a timely exploration of the American obsession with color in its look at the sometimes-contrary intersections of politics and race in science fiction. The contributors, including De Witt D. Kilgore, Edward James, Lisa Yaszek, and Marleen S. Barr, among others, explore science fiction worlds of possibility (literature, television, and film), lifting blacks, Latin ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms

    Edited by Taryne Jade Taylor, Isiah Lavender III, Grace L. Dillon, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms delivers a new, inclusive examination of science fiction, from close analyses of single texts to large-scale movements, providing readers with decolonized models of the future, including print, media, race, gender and social justice.This comprehensive overview of the field explores representations of possible futures arising from non-Western cultures and ... Read more

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