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Black aliens : kinship in the cosmic diaspora / Joanna Davis-McElligatt.
Fine Arts Library - New Book Display NX652.A37 D38 2026
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis-McElligatt, Joanna, Author.
- Series:
- New suns: race, gender, and sexuality in the speculative
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African diaspora in art.
- Black people in art.
- Extraterrestrial beings in art.
- Kinship in art.
- Black race.
- Black (general, race and ethnicity).
- Physical Description:
- viii, 225 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2026]
- Summary:
- "Explores the Black alien figure as constructed, imagined, and experimented on by Black writers, musicians, and artists to represent a cosmic diasporic experience, focusing primarily on the time period 1914 to 2025 and creators such as Octavia E. Butler, Dwayne McDuffie and M.D. Bright, Maisy Card, and Sun Ra"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- History as another planet : speculative histofiction and constellations of Black alien linealogy in Kindred and These ghosts are family
- Black skin, human masks, alien form : narrative physiognomy, visual phenomenology, and image-text representations of (extra)terrestriality
- Black alien m/other : correcting the intergalactic archive
- "I am not of this planet" : the making of Le Sony'r Ra's cosmic diaspora
- Coda: Earth is ghetto.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-216) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Davis-McElligatt, Joanna. Black aliens.
- ISBN:
- 9780814216088
- 0814216080
- 9780814259771
- 0814259774
- OCLC:
- 1535770454
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000359463
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