I chose the subgenre “Afrofuturism” for my literature review. And my main source will be the novel Kindred by Octavia E. Butler.

My four scholarly sources are:

  • The Languages of Afrofuturism (Volume 12, 2014) By Adriano Elia – http://siba-ese.unile.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/13733/12764
  • Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture By: Ytasha Womack                     https://books.google.com/books?id=pTXVAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
  • Review: Imagining Africa. “Africa SF.” Special Issue of Paradoxa by Mark Bould, ed. Source: Science Fiction Studies. Review by: Jalondra Davis Brown. Vol. 41, No. 3 (November 2014), pp. 650 – 653. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5621/scieficstud.41.3.0650
  •  Review: Useful and Dangerous. Review by: Peter Seyferth. Source: Science Fiction Studies. Vol. 41, No. 3 (November 2014), pp. 653 – 655. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5621/sciefictstud.41.3.0653