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In film, Afrofuturism is the incorporation of black people's history and culture in science fiction film and related genres. The Guardian ' s Ashley Clark said the term Afrofuturism has "an amorphous nature" but that Afrofuturist films are "united by one key theme: the centering of the international black experience in alternate and imagined realities, whether fiction or documentary; past or ...
In 2008, Bryant teamed up with a fellow romance author to write the urban fiction Hoodwives series for Simon & Schuster/Touchstone. Writing as Meesha Mink and De'Nesha Diamond, their first collaboration, Desperate Hoodwives , was released in January 2008, followed by Shameless Hoodwives in August 2008, and the highly anticipated The Hood Life ...
Urban fiction, also known as street lit or street fiction, is a literary genre set in a city landscape; however, the genre is as much defined by the socio-economic realities and culture of its characters as the urban setting. The tone for urban fiction is usually dark, focusing on the underside of city living.
William Wells Brown (1814–1884), wrote first novel published by an African American, Clotel (1853) Anatole Broyard (1920–1990) Ashley Bryan (1923–2022) Niobia Bryant (born 1972), author of romance and mainstream fiction novels; Ed Bullins (1935–2021) Olivia Ward Bush (1869–1944) Octavia Butler (1947–2006)
Omar Tyree, author of such urban lit narratives as “Flyy Girl” and “The Last Street Novel," recently went to see the Oscar-nominated movie “American Fiction.” “I loved the emotions of ...
Afrofuturism, as a genre, describes fictional works which encompass Black science fiction and may engage with any and all structural elements of the broader umbrella of subgenres (horror, fantasy, magical realism, historical fiction, etc.) classified under Black speculative fiction. [1] [2] [3]
A good way to celebrate all the magic of Black History Month is by reading up on some classic novels and watching their film adaptations.View Entire Post ›
African-American writers (18 C, 302 P) * African-Americans in literature (1 C, 10 P) A. ... Urban fiction (3 C, 24 P) Pages in category "African-American literature"