On Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women’s Fiction

Document Type

Book Review

Authors

• Aisha Matthews, University of Maryland, College ParkFollow

Author Biography

Aisha Matthews is a PhD student in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research centers on Black feminist thought, science and speculative fictions, cultural futurisms (most specifically, Afrofuturism), African American literature, biopolitics, disability studies, and literary postmodernism. In addition to various journal publications, her most recent book chapters, “Afrofuturism” and “N. K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season” were published in Mark Bould and Steven Shaviro, eds., This Is Not a Science Fiction Textbook (Goldsmiths Press, 2024). As a public speaker, Aisha has given interviews with Behind the Mind Radio and NPR’s Science Friday series to discuss New Suns, a collection of speculative fiction by people of color, edited by Nisi Shawl. Perhaps most importantly, Aisha is committed to the advancement of antiracist pedagogy and inclusive practices within the academy and its surrounding institutions.

Abstract

Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women’s Fiction by Cassandra L. Jones. Ohio State University Press, 2024. $29.95 paperback

Recommended Citation

Matthews, Aisha (2024) "On Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women’s Fiction," Criticism: Vol. 66: Iss. 2, Article 6.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/criticism/vol66/iss2/6