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The fact that so few African Americans write science fiction is
perplexing since they, in a very real sense, inhabit a sci-fi nightmare
in which unseen but no less palpable acts of intolerance frustrate
their movement; official histories undo what has been done;
and technology is too often brought to bear on black bodies.
Moreover, the sublegitimate status of science fiction in literature
mirrors the subaltern position to which blacks have been relegated
throughout American history. The notion of Afrofuturism gives
rise to a troubling antinomy: can a community whose past has
been deliberately rubbed out, and whose energies have been
consumed by the search for legible traces of its history, imagine
possible futures?
(Adaptado de DERY, M. Black to the future: interviews with Samuel R. Delany, Greg Tate,
and Tricia Rose. In: ___. (Ed.) The Discourse of cyberculture. Durham; London: Duke
University Press, p. 179-222, 1994.)
De acordo com o texto 1, a escassez de autores afro-americanos
em obras de ficção científica representa um
