{"product_id":"mothership-rising-lisa-yaszek-9780262058797","title":"Mothership Rising: Afrofuturism in the Radium Age","description":"\u003cb\u003eA mind-expanding anthology of early Black science fiction--the visionary origins of Afrofuturism. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe future is waiting--come aboard. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis collection, introduced by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Nisi Shawl, remixes the past to reveal a tradition of speculative thought too long overlooked: the pioneering Black writers, playwrights, and poets whose future-facing imaginations helped lay the groundwork for artists from Samuel R. Delany and Octavia E. Butler to Parliament-Funkadelic and Janelle Monáe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdited by Lisa Yaszek, \u003ci\u003eMothership Rising\u003c\/i\u003e gathers early twentieth-century visions--utopian and dystopian alike--from Pauline Hopkins, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Marita Bonner, George S. Schuyler, and others. Here are strange technologies, hidden histories, cosmic journeys, and revolutionary futures--transmissions from an earlier twentieth century, received now as a call to imagine otherwise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lisa Yaszek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262058790\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262058797\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/02\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Lisa Yaszek","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801592967423,"sku":"9780262058797","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mothership-rising-lisa-yaszek-9780262058797","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}