{"product_id":"audiofuturism-science-fiction-radio-drama-and-the-black-fantastic-imagination-hardcover","title":"Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama and the Black Fantastic Imagination - Hardcover","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\u003eAndré Carrington\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA revelatory history of Black radio productions from the 1950s to the present\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAudiofuturism \u003c\/i\u003euncovers the vibrant, overlooked history of radio adaptations that placed Black speculative writing before mass audiences, showing how sound shaped the politics and pleasures of twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture. While adaptation studies has long privileged film and sound studies has centered Black music, andré m. carrington redirects attention to radio drama to demonstrate how performance translates the Black fantastic imagination into an audible cultural heritage. Drawing on scripts, surviving recordings, production files, and author archives, the book reconstructs how radio made listeners hear literature differently and how those sonic interpretations reverberate through American Studies, media history, and Black literary traditions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOrganized as a scan across the dial, the study moves from World War II to the digital age. It begins with \u003ci\u003eNew World A-Coming\u003c\/i\u003e, a wartime series inspired by Roi Ottley that folded antiracist reporting and Popular Front ideals into weekly dramatizations aligned with the Black press's Double Victory campaign against fascism at home and abroad. It then tunes to bohemian 1960s New York, where Samuel R. Delany's \u003ci\u003eThe Star-Pit \u003c\/i\u003ebecame a striking radio play in which voice, silence, and experimental effects stage queer futurity. The book next considers the 2002 Seeing Ear Theatre adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's \u003ci\u003eKindred\u003c\/i\u003e, showing how audible epigraphs drawn from enslaved women's narratives converse with Butler's negotiations over dramatic audio rights, and how per-formance intensifies the novel's reckoning with slavery and memory. Finally, \u003ci\u003eAudiofuturism \u003c\/i\u003elistens to the BBC's 2016 adaptation of Toni Morrison's \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e, written by Patricia Cumper, to track how Black British theatre traditions and national broadcasting reshape a canonical American ghost story for twenty-first-century ears. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcross these case studies, carrington shows how radio dramatists and authors collaborated, compromised, and innovated to make speculative literature speak. The result is a fresh account of adaptation that enlarges the archive of Black sound, reframes radio as a site of cultural world-making, and invites scholars and general readers to listen again to the past in order to imagine different futures.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eandré m. carrington \u003c\/b\u003eis an English professor at the University of California, Riverside, where he directs the program in Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSpeculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction \u003c\/i\u003eand editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 07, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43338611064921,"sku":"9781531513320","price":178.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/6465\/9545\/files\/Us7eAfvS2W9781531513320.webp?v=1779426805","url":"https:\/\/warrenssanctuaryofthemind.myshopify.com\/fr\/products\/audiofuturism-science-fiction-radio-drama-and-the-black-fantastic-imagination-hardcover","provider":"Warren's sanctuary of the mind","version":"1.0","type":"link"}