{"product_id":"black-speculative-feminisms-cassandra-l-jones-9780814215401","title":"Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women's Fiction","description":"How do Black women writing speculative fiction explore the use of memory as a potential strategy for liberation? In \u003ci\u003eBlack Speculative Feminisms, \u003c\/i\u003e Cassandra L. Jones looks at the writings of Octavia E. Butler, Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, Rasheedah Phillips, and Nnedi Okorafor to chart those moments where characters harness, or fail to harness, the power of memory. These instances transform memory--individual and collective, bodily and archival--from passive recollection into direct or indirect social action. Taking a Black feminist approach, Jones addresses several emancipatory themes within Afrofuturism: the decolonization of time that can be found in fiction employing non-Western and nonlinear expressions of time, exploring futurity and the projection of a full range of expressions of Black humanity into anticipated futures, and imagining new worlds and novel approaches to old problems. Drawing on critical fabulation and restorative justice, she forwards restorative fabulation as the mechanism by which speculative fiction offers a healing site for authors and readers to process generational trauma while imagining more equitable futures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cassandra L. Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814215408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814215401\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Cassandra L. Jones","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46250644996351,"sku":"9780814215401","price":99.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_00b7570d-1d3a-40c7-92e7-f61eeccd9df4.jpg?v=1729600967","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/black-speculative-feminisms-cassandra-l-jones-9780814215401","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}