Out Of Egypt: histories of speculative fiction and Carole Mcdonnell's "Wind Follower".
Kelso, Sylvia (2010) Out Of Egypt: histories of speculative fiction and Carole Mcdonnell's "Wind Follower". Extrapolation, 51 (1). pp. 82-98.
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Abstract
[Extract] Winners write history, says the adage, and winners wrote the classical proverb, "Ex Africa semper aliquid novum" — out of Africa, always something new. This positions Africa from a (white) winner's perspective, as the source of marvels, rather than their superior audience. This paper's title however, invokes associations made with Africa in Mosaic, Christian, and particularly, Afro-American Christian contexts, and it is the "newness" of an Afro-American fiction’s treatment of several genres, not limited to speculative fiction, that I want to trace in Carole McDonnell’s Wind Follower.
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Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
ISSN: | 0014-5483 |
Keywords: | science fiction, literature, teaching and writing, gender, race |
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Date Deposited: | 15 May 2011 05:29 |
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