Phantasmagoria: A Look at Dark Romanticism, Romanticism’s Black Mirror
“Der Nachtmahr” by Henry Fuseli, 1790/1791. Rooted in Norse mythology but tenacious in European folklore, nachtmahre are creatures that possess people as they...
Radicals, folklore and fantasy: Read these 8 Black women writers and poets from Alabama
Black women writers have produced over time tremendous works that examine the fabric and quality of American life and democracy.Alabama has been birthplace and home...
How Political Revolutions Spark Literary Revolutions
The definitive model for this relationship between political conflict and literary trend...
50 Black Writers Whose Impact Went Beyond the Page
In the 19th century, African American literature was driven by narratives of slavery, many told from the perspective of escaped slaves such as Harriet...
From Afrofuturism to ecotopia: A climate-fiction glossary
Climate fiction,...