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Octavia Butler (1947-2006) broke new ground as a writer of science fiction. She expanded the genre by publishing some of the earliest examples of “Afrofuturism,” combining African history and folklore ...
Afrofuturism is an invocation of our creative ... These fantasies become self-expressed in multitudes, from Octavia Butler‘s grotesque premonitions of Black people’s heroic apocalypse survival ...
ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena ...
Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait for inspiration ... Butler was widely revered as one of the architects of Afrofuturism. Two years after the exhibition, Butler died at the age of 58.
The Radical Teacher, No. 122, Teaching Afrofuturism: Race, Erasure, and COVID (Spring 2022), pp. 13-20 (8 pages) This essay describes teaching Afrofuturism in a small liberal arts college and a state ...