Lisa Yaszek
Biographic Data
| ID | 3683596 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Yaszek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Yaszek |
| SIGNATURE | YASZEK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | President, SFRA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century
Part one: Afrofuturism now. Author roundtable on Afrofuturism / Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek -- Dangerous muses: black women writers creating at the forefront of Afrofuturism / Sheree R. Thomas -- Part two: Afrofuturism in literary history. This time for Africa! Afrofuturism as alternate (American) history / De Witt Douglas Kilgore -- Middle age, mer people, and the Middle Passage: Nalo Hopkinson's Afrofuturist journeying in The new moon's …
Tinkering with History
Afrofuturism in American Science Fiction
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The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction
The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience. Science fiction in America has long served to reflect the country's hopes, desires, ambitions, and fears. The ideas and conventions associated with science fiction are pervasive throughout American film and television, comics and visual arts, games and gaming, a…
Joan Gordon Wins 2014 Pilgrim Award
Science's Consciousness: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson
“Science’s Consciousness”: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson Doug Davis (bio) and Lisa Yaszek (bio) Doug Davis and Lisa Yaszek: This is a special issue of Configurations, a journal devoted to the “relation of literature and the arts to the sciences and technology.” So we begin with a big question: What can scientists learn from science fiction? Kim Stanley Robinson: My impression is that scientists can read science fiction in two useful ways…
Fan Scholarship 2.0
Science Fiction Research Association 2010 Awards
Science Fiction Research Association Awards
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
Afrofuturism, science fiction, and the history of the future
In his introduction to the 1989 re-issue of Invisible Man Ralph Ellison provocatively notes, "a piece of science fiction is the last thing I expected to write" (xv). Both this claim and the way Ell
An Afrofuturist Reading of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
This article examines Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man in light of recent thinking about Afrofuturism. As an international aesthetic movement concerned with the relations of science, technology, and race, Afrofuturism appropriates the narrative techniques of science fiction to put a black face on the future. In doing so, it combats those whitewashed visions of tomorrow generated by a global ‘futures industry’ that equates blackness with the failure …
Stories ?That Only a Mother? Could Write: Midcentury Peace Activism, Maternalist Politics, and Judith Merril's Early Fiction
This essay explores Judith Merril's early fiction in relation to the maternalist politics characteristic of midcentury women's peace activism. Dominant Cold War discourses encouraged American women to become "domestic patriots" by using their natural caretaking instincts to prepare their homes against the eventuality of nuclear war. Conversely, midcentury peace organizations posited that it was women's civic duty to protect their families by prot…
“A Grim Fantasy”: Remaking American History in Octavia Butler’s Kindred
Afrofuturism, science fiction, and the history of the future
In his introduction to the 1989 re-issue of Invisible Man Ralph Ellison provocatively notes, "a piece of science fiction is the last thing I expected to write" (xv). Both this claim and the way Ell
An Afrofuturist Reading of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
This article examines Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man in light of recent thinking about Afrofuturism. As an international aesthetic movement concerned with the relations of science, technology, and race, Afrofuturism appropriates the narrative techniques of science fiction to put a black face on the future. In doing so, it combats those whitewashed visions of tomorrow generated by a global ‘futures industry’ that equates blackness with the failure …
“A Grim Fantasy”: Remaking American History in Octavia Butler’s Kindred
Stories ?That Only a Mother? Could Write: Midcentury Peace Activism, Maternalist Politics, and Judith Merril's Early Fiction
This essay explores Judith Merril's early fiction in relation to the maternalist politics characteristic of midcentury women's peace activism. Dominant Cold War discourses encouraged American women to become "domestic patriots" by using their natural caretaking instincts to prepare their homes against the eventuality of nuclear war. Conversely, midcentury peace organizations posited that it was women's civic duty to protect their families by prot…
An Afrofuturist Reading of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
This article examines Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man in light of recent thinking about Afrofuturism. As an international aesthetic movement concerned with the relations of science, technology, and race, Afrofuturism appropriates the narrative techniques of science fiction to put a black face on the future. In doing so, it combats those whitewashed visions of tomorrow generated by a global ‘futures industry’ that equates blackness with the failure …
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
Afrofuturism, science fiction, and the history of the future
In his introduction to the 1989 re-issue of Invisible Man Ralph Ellison provocatively notes, "a piece of science fiction is the last thing I expected to write" (xv). Both this claim and the way Ell
Science Fiction Research Association Awards
Science Fiction Research Association 2010 Awards
Fan Scholarship 2.0
Science's Consciousness: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson
“Science’s Consciousness”: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson Doug Davis (bio) and Lisa Yaszek (bio) Doug Davis and Lisa Yaszek: This is a special issue of Configurations, a journal devoted to the “relation of literature and the arts to the sciences and technology.” So we begin with a big question: What can scientists learn from science fiction? Kim Stanley Robinson: My impression is that scientists can read science fiction in two useful ways…
Joan Gordon Wins 2014 Pilgrim Award
Afrofuturism in American Science Fiction
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction
The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience. Science fiction in America has long served to reflect the country's hopes, desires, ambitions, and fears. The ideas and conventions associated with science fiction are pervasive throughout American film and television, comics and visual arts, games and gaming, a…
Tinkering with History
Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century
Part one: Afrofuturism now. Author roundtable on Afrofuturism / Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek -- Dangerous muses: black women writers creating at the forefront of Afrofuturism / Sheree R. Thomas -- Part two: Afrofuturism in literary history. This time for Africa! Afrofuturism as alternate (American) history / De Witt Douglas Kilgore -- Middle age, mer people, and the Middle Passage: Nalo Hopkinson's Afrofuturist journeying in The new moon's …
Art (11 works) · History (9 works) · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction (9 works) · Literature (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (4 works) · Digital Games and Media (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works)