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Caitlin O’Neill explores how engaging black future texts is both significant and necessary to the survival of African descended people, and for the ability of black women and girls to thrive in the twenty-first century. In this chapter, O’Neill explores creative, affirmative answers to Mark Dery’s question: “Can a community whose past has been deliberately rubbed out, and whose energies have subsequently been consumed by the search for legible traces of its history, imagine possible futures?” O’Neill highlights the long history of work that black women have contributed to the black speculative fiction tradition. They also work to establish an Afrofuturistic feminist genealogy, investigating works from Octavia Butler to Janelle Monáe while privileging the speculative fiction, fantasy, and other creative production of black women.
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O’Neill, C. (2021). Towards an Afrofuturist Feminist Manifesto. In: Butler, P. (eds) Critical Black Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7880-9_4
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