Early Black Feminist SF and Future Fiction

The chapter reevaluates the tradition of radical challenges to race and gender oppression advanced by 19th- and early 20th-century African American feminist sci-fi and future fiction writers like Frances E. W. Harper, Pauline E. Hopkins, and Lillian B. Horace. The formal and thematic continuities that emerge from their works offer interpretive tools that enable compelling practices of re-reading their insurgent force and recovering the 19th- and early 20th-century roots of contemporary Afrofuturism.