Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds

2022/07/03 by Smaran Dayal · 3 citations
Arts and Humanities · #Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction

paper · doi:10.1080/00064246.2022.2079072

openalex publication_date 2022/07/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

Black Utopias is study of “black speculative vision and practice” (1) across several mediums—science fiction, music, poetry, sermon, and experiments in living—spanning just over two centuries. Brow...

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