{"product_id":"black-aliens-kinship-in-the-cosmic-diaspora-paperback","title":"Black Aliens: Kinship in the Cosmic Diaspora - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoanna Davis-McElligatt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBlack Aliens, \u003c\/i\u003e Joanna Davis-McElligatt examines extraterrestrial and interdimensional aliens in Black speculative media and culture, reading them as figural representations of a cosmic diasporic experience and charged metaphors for Black fugitivity and escape. As figures of the enslaved and their descendants, ghosts, time travelers, interstellar voyagers, immortals, and abductees, Black aliens are inherently disruptive figures. In her analysis, Davis-McElligatt foregrounds alien entanglements with terrestrial beings that generate new networks of kinship and relation--genealogical, reproductive, transspecies. As Black extraterrestrials form chosen kin-community with Black Earthlings, they extend the Black Atlantic beyond earthly boundaries. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnalyzing prose, poetry, film, record albums, comic books, illustrations, art installations, and exhibition catalogues, Davis-McElligatt traces how Octavia E. Butler, Maisy Card, Sun Ra, and Dwayne McDuffie and M. D. Bright visualize aliens whose bodies and beings are subject to interpellation as Black on Earth. She argues that these creators intentionally locate the Black alien as a subject whose galactic bonds are constructed in and as narrative form itself, made manifest in plot, characterization, and narrativization. In recasting narrative spacetime, they reimagine Black entanglements, kinship systems, and histories as a cosmic diaspora.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoanna Davis-McElligatt is Assistant Professor of Black Literary Studies in the Department of English at the University of North Texas. She is the coeditor of \u003ci\u003ebell hooks's Radical Pedagogy: New Visions of Feminism, Justice, Love, and Resistance in the Classroom.\u003c\/i\u003e Her research has appeared in \u003ci\u003esouth: a scholarly journal, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMississippi Quarterly, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBOOM! SPLAT! Comics and Violence. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 238\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 09, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43338666704985,"sku":"9780814259771","price":73.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/6465\/9545\/files\/J-gdV98ZSO9780814259771.webp?v=1779426875","url":"https:\/\/warrenssanctuaryofthemind.myshopify.com\/de\/products\/black-aliens-kinship-in-the-cosmic-diaspora-paperback","provider":"Warren's sanctuary of the mind","version":"1.0","type":"link"}