| Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criti; Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination examines the future-oriented visions of black subjectivity in works by contemporary black women writers, filmmakers, and musicians, including Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, Julie Dash, and Janelle Monáe. In this innovative study, Kristen Lillvis supplements historically situated conceptions of blackness with imaginative projections of black futures. This theoretical approach allows her to acknowledge the importance of history without positing a purely historical origin for black identities. KRISTEN LILLVIS is an associate professor of English at Marshall University. Her work has been published in MELUS ; Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction ; and in the edited collections Community Boundaries and Border Crossings: Critical Essays on Ethnic Women Writers , Feminist and Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Mothering , and Practicing Science Fiction: Critical Essays on Writing, Reading, and Teaching the Genre . |