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Tag: Author: Nisi Shawl

Afrofuturism’s Specter: Alternate History, Racial Capitalism, and Nisi Shawl’s “Everfair”

Posted on December 1, 2019March 13, 2026 by sonofsagan in Genre Fantasies, Other Essays

This is the text of a paper about Nisi Shawl's Everfair originally presented at the Worlding SF conference in Graz, Austria in December 2018.

Tagged Author: Nisi Shawl, Genre: Science Fiction1 Comment

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