This dissertation seeks to provide a critical investigation of several novels written by African American science- and speculative fiction author, Steven Barnes. In exploring Lion's Blood (2002), Blood Brothers (1996), the Aubry Knight trilogy (1983, 1989, 1993), and Iron Shadows (1998), the project posits that there is substantive work being done in depicting the Black embodied somatic as a site of allegorical historicizing. Herein, I read the novels' work with subgenres of alternate history, dark fantasy, cyberpunk, and fantastical AfroAsia (respectively) as serving as a means by which Barnes's constructions of gendered Blackness can meaningfully be read as a kind of Afrofuturist engagement with both the Afrodiasporic past and globalized dimensions of the yet-to-come. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Spring Semester 2018. / April 16, 2018. / Afrofuturism, Alternate History, Blackness, Mecha, Somatic, Steven Barnes / Includes bibliographical references. / Jerrilyn McGregory, Professor Directing Dissertation; Delia Poey, University Representative; Maxine Montgomery, Committee Member; Candace Ward, Committee Member; Dennis Moore, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_653376 |
| Contributors | Brickler, Alexander Dumas J. (author), McGregory, Jerrilyn (professor directing dissertation), Poey, Delia (university representative), Montgomery, Maxine Lavon, 1959- (committee member), Ward, Candace (committee member), Moore, Dennis D. (committee member), Florida State University (degree granting institution), College of Arts and Sciences (degree granting college), Department of English (degree granting departmentdgg) |
| Publisher | Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text, doctoral thesis |
| Format | 1 online resource (240 pages), computer, application/pdf |
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