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- Title: Out of Egypt: Histories of Speculative Fiction and Carole Mcdonnell's Wind Follower (Report)
- Author : Extrapolation
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 210 KB
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Winners write history, says the adage, and winners wrote the classical proverb, "Ex Africa semper aliquid novum"--out of Africa, always something new. This positions Africa from a (white) winner's perspective, as the source of marvels, rather than their superior audience. This paper's title however, invokes associations made with Africa in Mosaic, Christian, and particularly, Afro-American Christian contexts, and it is the "newness" of an Afro-American fiction's treatment of several genres, not limited to speculative fiction, that I want to trace in Carole McDonnell's Wind Follower. First, however, I need to set out a methodology. It is a critical truism that texts are inflected in ways springing from the writer's position in the hegemonic social groupings of race, class, gender, sexuality, nationality, and also, professed creed. To these we can add smaller but important questions: whether the writer works consciously within or against a generic form, or a group of authors intending to use such a form. And last but by no means least, how the text is inscribed, changed and/or limited, even to the point of achieving actual publication, by market constraints and demands. But how does one define the genre the writer inflects?