Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination examines the future-oriented visions of black subjectivity in works
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Table of contents :
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Temporal liminality in Toni Morrison's Beloved and A mercy
2. Posthuman solidarity in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose
3. Afrofuturist aesthetics in the works of Erykah Badu, Janelle Monáe, and Gayl Jones
4. Posthuman multiple consciousness in Octavia E. Butler's science fiction
5. Submarine transversality in texts by Sheree Rene Thomas and Julie Dash.
Notes
Works cited
Index