{"product_id":"the-black-imagination-science-fiction-and-the-speculative-9781138864511","title":"The Black Imagination, Science Fiction and the Speculative","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sandra Jackson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book expands the discourse as well as the nature of critical commentary on science fiction, speculative fiction and futurism - literary and cinematic by Black writers. The range of topics include the following: black superheroes; issues and themes in selected works by Octavia Butler; selected work of Nalo Hopkinson; the utopian and dystopian impulse in the work of W.E. B. Du Bois and George Schuyler; Derrick Bell's Space Traders; the Star Trek Franchise; female protagonists through the lens of race and gender in the Alien and Predator film franchises; science fiction in the Caribbean Diaspora; commentary on select African films regarding near-future narratives; as well as a science fiction\/speculative literature writer's discussion of why she writes and how. This book was published as a special issue of \u003cem\u003eAfrican Identities: An International Journal.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45236930576535,"sku":"9781138864511","price":4399.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781138864511.webp?v=1769215059","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-black-imagination-science-fiction-and-the-speculative-9781138864511","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}