AfroSurrealism

AfroSurrealism

The African Diaspora's Surrealist Fiction

Spencer, Rochelle

Taylor & Francis Ltd

12/2019

150

Dura

Inglês

9781138504059

15 a 20 dias

453

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Introduction: AfroSurrealism: A New Black Surrealism 1. Mat Johnson's Pym and Helen Oyeyemi's boy snow bird: AfroSurrealism, Magical Realism, and the Psychology of Reimagining the Past 2. Edwidge Danticat's Claire of the Sea Light, Chris Abani's The Secret History of Las Vegas, and the AfroSurreal Grotesque 3. AfroSurreal and Afrofuturistic Cinematic Storytelling: Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Colson Whitehead's Zone One 4. The Postmodern Fables of Victor LaValle's Big Machine and Summer Brenner's Oakland Tales 5. Horror and Immortality in Tananarive Due's Ghost Summer, Nalo Hopkinson's Falling in Love with Hominids, and Rachel Eliza Griffiths' Woman after Her Last Wound Conclusion: Jeffery Renard Allen and Sustaining the Surreal Moment Appendix
Black Science Fiction;Speculative Fiction Writer;Afro-Surrealism;Tragic Flaw;African;Adolf Hitler;Diaspora;Usual Weather;Surrealist;Franklin Rosemont;fiction;Horror Movies;Rochelle Spencer;Mixed Race Protagonists;visual technologies;Oscar Wao;Junot Diaz;Magical Realism;Helen Oyeyemi;Edwidge Danticat;Ghost Hunt;Colson Whitehead;Zombie Apocalypse;Mat Johnson;Speculative Fiction;Ben Okri;Black Speculative;Black Postmodernism;Swamp Angels;African diaspora;Black Arts Movement;AfroSurrealism;Indigenous Science;black studies criticism;Chris Abani;surrealist fiction;Big Machine;Sea Light;Sociomental Space;Black Protagonist;Black Aesthetic;Cinematic References