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Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Fall 2016

2016

Contents

Page Type Kind Title Author(s)
3 Essay Non Fiction Introduction: And So Shaped the World Sheree Renée Thomas
11 Short Fiction Fiction His Hollow Sofia Samatar
19 Short Fiction Fiction Let Your Light Shine Before Men Christopher Caldwell
35 Short Fiction Fiction Eyes of Xhosa Iyanna L. Jones
48 Short Fiction Fiction Mahogany Soul Sandra Jackson-Opoku
50 Short Fiction Fiction Black Magic Cairo Amani
61 Short Fiction Fiction The Call of Mother Earth Arthur Flowers
67 Short Fiction Fiction Still Life with Hammers, a Broom & a Brick Stacker Tochi Onyebuchi
79 Short Fiction Fiction Ten Thousand Hours Alex Jennings
94 Short Fiction Fiction Portrait of a Young Zombie in Crisis Walidah Imarisha
114 Short Fiction Fiction Seven Possible Futures for the Black Feminist Artist Alexis Pauline Gumbs
121 Poem Fiction Aphasia & Other States of Reticence Johnette Marie Ellis
122 Poem Fiction Silence of Family Trees Harry Reed
124 Poem Fiction DiVida travels First Class Monica A. Hand
126 Poem Fiction DiVida contemplates the hard problem Monica A. Hand
127 Poem Fiction Leader names all ionized matter after himself Metta Sáma
128 Poem Fiction their pasts dropped at my feet Metta Sáma
129 Poem Fiction for the letter kills but the Spirit gives life Metta Sáma
130 Poem Fiction He himself was not the light; He came only as witness to the light Metta Sáma
131 Poem Fiction Classification of Shifting, Bodies Alana Benoit
133 Poem Fiction The Bean Between the E & the I LaShawn M. Wanak
135 Poem Fiction Mable & Othello Mama Whodun
136 Poem Fiction A Reading of Adire Cloth Jacqueline Johnson
137 Poem Fiction Land Bound (a Zuihitsu) Jacqueline Johnson
139 Poem Fiction Red Giant Heartthrob Bianca Spriggs
140 Short Fiction Fiction Daffodils Monica A. Hand
146 Short Fiction Fiction Otherwise Oblivion: A Tale of the New Old Black Resistance from the Futuretime Derek Lee McPhatter
167 Short Fiction Fiction The Wall M. Asli Dukan
190 Essay Non Fiction Of Alien Abductions, Pocket Universes and Slave Narratives Isiah Lavender, III
204 Essay Non Fiction Slavery and the Afrofuture in Samuel R. Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand Dorothy Stringer
218 Essay Non Fiction Afrofuturism, Cyborgs and the Fate of Imperialism in Bill Campbell's Sunshine Patriots Jonathan Harvey
228 Essay Non Fiction Afrofuturism 2.0 and the Black Speculative Arts Movement: Notes on a Manifesto Reynaldo Anderson
237 Essay Non Fiction Speculative Sankofarration: Haunting Black Women in Contemporary Horror Fiction Kinitra D. Brooks & Alexis McGee & Stephanie Schoellman
249 Essay Non Fiction Scratching at the Dark: A Visual Essay on EthnoGothic John Jennings
101|101.1 Short Fiction Fiction Trapped Whispers (from Cell Therapy) Regina N. Bradley
Page Type Kind Title Author(s)
Cover Art Non Fiction Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Fall 2016 Stacey Robinson
Editor Non Fiction Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Fall 2016 Sheree Renée Thomas
101|101.2 Interior Art Non Fiction Trapped Whispers (from Cell Therapy) John Jennings