The Black Imagination, Science Fiction and the Speculative

Sandra Jackson is a Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at DePaul University. Julie Moody-Freeman is an Associate Professor of African and Black Diaspora Studies at DePaul University.

Editorial note: the genre of science fiction and the black imagination Sandra Jackson and Julie Moody-Freeman

1.Brave black worlds: black superheroes as science fiction ciphers Adilifu Nama

2.Arboreal dialogics: an ecocritical exploration of Octavia Butler’s Dawn Andrew Plisner

3.But that’s just mad! Reading the utopian impulse in Dark princess and Black empire Amor Kohli

4.Vanishing bodies: ‘race’ and technology in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight robber Elizabeth Boyle

5.Earthling dreams in black and white: space, representation and US racial politics in
‘The space traders’ Julie Moody-Freeman

6.‘Explorers’ – Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Micheal Charles Pounds

7.Terrans, extraterrestrials, warriors and the last (wo)man standing Sandra Jackson

8.Cognition’s warp: African films on near-future risk Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi

9.Organic fantasy Nnedi Okorafor