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"A Century New for the Duty and the Deed" Black Speculative Fiction at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
"A Century New for the Duty and the Deed" Black Speculative Fiction at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211151053
- ISBN
- 9798382752686
- DDC
- 820
- 저자명
- Miller, Brandon.
- 서명/저자
- A Century New for the Duty and the Deed Black Speculative Fiction at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Temple University, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 237 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Salazar, James.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Temple University, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약My dissertation examines four Black speculative novels from the turn of the twentieth century, published between 1892-1904. Texts from this tradition tend to be grouped under an umbrella of "proto-Afrofuturism" or "proto-science fiction" and considered as early, surprising instances of a speculative mode that would only fully emerge several decades later. This categorization, while accurate in some respects, flattens out the diversity of the Black speculative imagination at the turn of the century. Therefore, I prioritize demonstrating the uniqueness of each author's vision. At the same time, I argue that these texts share a fundamental similarity in their approach: they anticipate Arthur Schomburg's famous injunction that the "Negro must remake his past in order to make his future." They use the affordances of the speculative mode to experiment with a shared Black history and explore the possibilities and limitations of that history for a viable and desirable Black future. The authors that I examine challenge the conclusions of racial science that were used to justify a racially stratified society. In doing so, these authors speculate about the imminent future of Black Americans. But even though the perspective of these texts is the imminent future, their central preoccupation is actually Black history. Each of these texts experiment with a different possible shared history with which Black Americans can anchor a collective political identity. This approach is in distinct contrast to the typical approach of turn of the century utopian texts. If we can say axiomatically that white utopian texts, though they often extrapolate and project a distant future, actually function to estrange the present moment; then we can say, in contrast, that Black utopian texts from this era, although they are concerned about an imminent future, more fundamentally estrange the past.
- 일반주제명
- American literature
- 일반주제명
- African American studies
- 일반주제명
- American studies
- 일반주제명
- Black history
- 키워드
- Afrofuturism
- 키워드
- Black literature
- 기타저자
- Temple University English
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-11A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17160636▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
