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7. Samuel Delany and the Ambiguity of Utopia
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS vii
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
- Introduction: Utopia and Black American Thought 1
- 1. Martin Delany’s Experiment in Escape 19
- 2. Turn- of- the- Century Black Literary Utopianism 34
- 3. W. E. B. Du Bois’s World of Utopian Intimacy 49
- 4. George S. Schuyler, Irony, and Utopia 63
- 5. Richard Wright’s Black Power and Anticolonial Antiutopianism 81
- 6. Sun Ra and Cosmic Blackness 96
- 7. Samuel Delany and the Ambiguity of Utopia 110
- 8. Octavia Butler and the Politics of Utopian Transcendence 123
- Conclusion: Black Utopia and the Contemporary Political Imagination 137
- Notes 145
- Bibliography 171
- Index 179
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS vii
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
- Introduction: Utopia and Black American Thought 1
- 1. Martin Delany’s Experiment in Escape 19
- 2. Turn- of- the- Century Black Literary Utopianism 34
- 3. W. E. B. Du Bois’s World of Utopian Intimacy 49
- 4. George S. Schuyler, Irony, and Utopia 63
- 5. Richard Wright’s Black Power and Anticolonial Antiutopianism 81
- 6. Sun Ra and Cosmic Blackness 96
- 7. Samuel Delany and the Ambiguity of Utopia 110
- 8. Octavia Butler and the Politics of Utopian Transcendence 123
- Conclusion: Black Utopia and the Contemporary Political Imagination 137
- Notes 145
- Bibliography 171
- Index 179