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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.)
Texto 2
“Parable of the Talents”
(Octavia E. Butler)
“To survive,
Let the past
Teach you--
Past customs,
Struggles,
Leaders and thinkers.
Let
These
Help you.
Let them inspire you,
Warn you,
Give you strength.
But beware:
God is Change.
Past is past.
What was
Cannot
Come again.
To survive,
know the past.
Let it touch you.
Then let
The past Go.”
(BUTLER, Octavia E. Parable of the Talents. New York, Durham and London: Open Road, 1998.)
O texto 2 toca em um aspecto central do afrofuturismo e remete ao tema do questionamento do texto 1. Assim, pode-se dizer
que o poema reconhece que
