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Writers such as [[Samuel R. Delany]], [[Nalo Hopkinson]], [[Minister Faust]], [[Nnedi Okorafor]], [[N. K. Jemisin]], [[Tananarive Due]], [[Andrea Hairston]],<ref>http://chroniclesofharriet.wordpress.com/</ref> and [[Nisi Shawl]] are among the writers who continue to work in black science fiction. |
Writers such as [[Samuel R. Delany]], [[Nalo Hopkinson]], [[Ken Sibanda]]<ref>http://www.ourweekly.com/tags/ken-sibanda</ref><ref>http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/community/londonconnection/articles/inbrief/filing-lawsuits-directing-film-shoots </ref><ref>http://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2012/06/23/writer-travels-to-andalucia-to-scout-for-talent-for-film/</ref>, [[Minister Faust]], [[Nnedi Okorafor]], [[N. K. Jemisin]], [[Tananarive Due]], [[Andrea Hairston]],<ref>http://chroniclesofharriet.wordpress.com/</ref> and [[Nisi Shawl]] are among the writers who continue to work in black science fiction. |
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[[Octavia E. Butler]] was an extremely influential African-American science fiction author who died in 2006. [[W. E. B. Du Bois]], mainly noted for other types of writing, also wrote science fiction stories.<ref>''Dark Matter: Reading the Bones'', edited by Sheree R. Thomas. Warner Books, 2004</ref> |
[[Octavia E. Butler]] was an extremely influential African-American science fiction author who died in 2006. [[W. E. B. Du Bois]], mainly noted for other types of writing, also wrote science fiction stories.<ref>''Dark Matter: Reading the Bones'', edited by Sheree R. Thomas. Warner Books, 2004</ref> |
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Black science fiction or black speculative fiction is an umbrella term that covers a variety of activities within the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres where people of the African diaspora take part or are depicted. In the late 1990s a number of cultural critics began to use the term Afrofuturism to depict a cultural and literary movement of thinkers and artists of the African diaspora who were using science, technology, and science fiction as means of exploring the black experience.[1]
Participants
Writers such as Samuel R. Delany, Nalo Hopkinson, Ken Sibanda[2][3][4], Minister Faust, Nnedi Okorafor, N. K. Jemisin, Tananarive Due, Andrea Hairston,[5] and Nisi Shawl are among the writers who continue to work in black science fiction.
Octavia E. Butler was an extremely influential African-American science fiction author who died in 2006. W. E. B. Du Bois, mainly noted for other types of writing, also wrote science fiction stories.[6]
The Carl Brandon Society is a group originating in the science fiction community dedicated to addressing the representation of people of color in the fantastical genres such as science fiction, fantasy, and horror. The Society recognizes works by authors of color and featuring characters of color through awards, provides reading lists for educators and librarians, including one for Black History Month and has a wiki specifically for collecting information about people of color working in these genres.
See also
Bibliography
- Dark Matter is a collection series of stories and essays from writers of African descent.
- Name, Adilifu (2008). Black space: imagining race in science fiction film. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292717459.
- Grayson, Sandra M. (2003). Visions of the third millennium: Black science fiction novelists write the future. Africa World Press. ISBN 9781592210220.
References
- ^ Afrofuturism, Science Fiction, and the History of the Future, by Lisa Yaszek. Journal of the Research Group on Socialism and Democracy, Volume 20, No. 3
- ^ http://www.ourweekly.com/tags/ken-sibanda
- ^ http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/community/londonconnection/articles/inbrief/filing-lawsuits-directing-film-shoots
- ^ http://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2012/06/23/writer-travels-to-andalucia-to-scout-for-talent-for-film/
- ^ http://chroniclesofharriet.wordpress.com/
- ^ Dark Matter: Reading the Bones, edited by Sheree R. Thomas. Warner Books, 2004
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