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Race, Colonialism, and Science Fiction

Race, Colonialism, and Science Fiction. 1. Race in science fiction. 2. Race in science fiction. 3. Race in science fiction. Why is race not represented in scifi?. Recurring issues explored. Physical diversity Cultural diversity Speech/language Ethnicity and traditions. chronology.

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Race, Colonialism, and Science Fiction

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  1. Race, Colonialism, and Science Fiction

  2. 1. Race in science fiction

  3. 2. Race in science fiction

  4. 3. Race in science fiction

  5. Why is race not represented in scifi?

  6. Recurring issues explored • Physical diversity • Cultural diversity • Speech/language • Ethnicity and traditions

  7. chronology • 1960-70 human right/anti-racist movement • 1967 Teatro Campesino (Chicana Culture) • 1974 Sun Ra and his Arkestra featured in “Space is the Place” (Afro-American culture) • 1987 Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa • 1990-on Guillermo Gomez Pena • 1994 Mark Dery (defined Afrofuturism)

  8. Chicana-futurism 1987 -Narrates colonial and postcolonial histories of "indigenismo", "mestizaje", hegemony, and survival. -how chicano/chicana are • alienated from technologies • have to work with/are affected by them

  9. Borderland /la Frontera Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (1987) "new mestiza" = individual aware of her conflicting and meshing identities and uses these "new angles of vision" to challenge binary thinking in the Western World

  10. Guillermo Gomez Pena

  11. Afrofuturism 1994 Mark Dery : “Mainstream science fiction takes inspiration from things that are going on in society, but often does not include the viewpoint of those in the African Diaspora. In the spirit of filling in this gap, the artists and writers in the Afro-futurist tradition seek to include us in the future settings that we are often left out of."

  12. What is it?

  13. The Midnight Robber • Synthesis of different genres • Hybrid language (creole)

  14. The Midnight Robber

  15. Triangular Trade

  16. Carnival culture • http://www.tntisland.com/carnivalcharacters.html • http://www.tntisland.com/folklore.html

  17. Trinidad & Tobago Myths 1. Douen: lost souls of children that had not yet been baptized or christened. 2. Eshu messenger between human and divine worlds, Undergod of duality, crossroads and beginnings, and also a phallic and fertility Undergod.

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