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 ...

This is Afrofuturism writ large ... from authors like Samuel Delaney to Octavia Butler (particularly her Xenogenesis trilogy, which uses the intermingling of human and alien societies to explore ...

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 ...

The Radical Teacher, No. 122, Teaching Afrofuturism: Race, Erasure, and COVID (Spring 2022), pp. 52-63 (12 pages) Kodwo Eshun asserts that “Afrofuturism studies the appeals that black artists, ...