Titlebook: Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society; Patricia Ventura,Edward K. Chan Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and Th

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Re-Read and Recover: Afrofuturism as a Reading Practice in George S. Schuyler’s , and Octavia E. Butopias that consider race and other marginalized positions as central to their construction. Both Schuyler’s and Butler’s experience with and understanding of race invite discussions of literary utopias as an exercise that questions rather than reaches a destination. They are less concerned about inv

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Re-programming the Present: The Dynamism of Black Futurity in Nalo Hopkinson’s on’s Midnight Robber exemplifies the potency of Afrofuturism as a tool of political intervention that merges mythology and technology to create a critical utopia that confirms the ingenuity of the Black technological imagination while resisting the institutionalization of essentialist visions of Bla

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Dreaming of Afrofuturism, Epic Fantasy, and Utopia in N. K. Jemisin’s Dreamblood Duologys are set in an alternate ancient Egypt in which the inhabitants live in the peaceful but rigidly hierarchal city-state of Gujaareh. This chapter analyzes the novels’ illustration of critical utopia, while also engaging Afrofuturism’s role in challenging notions of ideal pasts or futures. Like other