Light Ahead for the Negro...
September 29, 2012 10:35 AM Subscribe
Author and librarian, Jess Nevins, offers The Black Fantastic: Highlights of Pre-World War II African and African-American Speculative Fiction.
Excellent introductory compilations of Black speculative SF and Fantasy: So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy; Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora; Dark Matter: Reading the Bones.
Mr. Nevins so often previously...
Excellent introductory compilations of Black speculative SF and Fantasy: So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy; Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora; Dark Matter: Reading the Bones.
Mr. Nevins so often previously...
The earliest, "The Goophered Grapevine" (Atlantic Monthly, Aug 1887), is Uncle Julius' attempt to scare off a northerner from buying a ruined plantation by telling the story of the goopher which haunts the vineyard.
A single vowel away from internet immortality.
This is interesting stuff, thanks.
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 11:05 AM on September 29, 2012
A single vowel away from internet immortality.
This is interesting stuff, thanks.
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 11:05 AM on September 29, 2012
This is awesome.
I would like to formally give Jess Nevins the "MeFi Favorite Jess Nevins" title. He is awesome and I think he's now had five posts about him.
posted by Joey Michaels at 1:22 PM on September 29, 2012
I would like to formally give Jess Nevins the "MeFi Favorite Jess Nevins" title. He is awesome and I think he's now had five posts about him.
posted by Joey Michaels at 1:22 PM on September 29, 2012
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