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... imaginaries render the binary oppositions between realism and science fiction, modernism and postmodernism incomprehensible. “Visionary fiction, cataclysm” is the third term the essay invokes to think through these cultural formations and their capacity to rewrite the bourgeois science fiction realisms...

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... This essay examines various artistic attempts by Kara Walker, Robert Polidori, Spike Lee, and Jana Napoli to understand the visual trauma engendered by the flooding and desperation that followed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, a cataclysm of national and historic importance. This event...

... enslaved in the early Black Atlantic were witnesses to the cataclysm that was the rise of hereditary racial slavery. By considering their lives and their perspectives, we approach by the conclusion, “Madness,” a clearer understanding of the costs and contours of racial capitalism. racial capitalism...

... This chapter turns to the beginning of volcanology in the Netherlands East Indies and the anxieties of late colonialism. It traces the fate of the idea that medieval Javanese Hindu-Buddhist civilization was destroyed by a cataclysmic eruption of Merapi in AD 1006. This idea became a way...

... Chapter 4 discusses how Sesshu Foster’s novel Atomik Aztex (2005) reimagines the historical cataclysm of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Turning to the tropes of science fiction exhibits a “Latinxface” performance that revises both minstrelsy traditions and expectations for justice-imagining...

... The following story about the cataclysmic transition from an older time of darkness to a new solar age relates in mythic form the historical emergence of the state and its solar religious cult. It tells of the defeat and demise of earlier peoples, which are conflated symbolically as “Chullpas...

...Beginning Again This essay examines various artistic attempts by Kara Walker, Robert Polidori, Spike Lee, and Jana Napoli to understand the visual trauma engendered by the flooding and desperation that followed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, a cataclysm of national and historic...

... an illuminating outline of the relations between the Aymara kingdoms and the Inka prior to the arrival of the Pizarros and Almagros, as well as of the political contest thereafter. The following story about the cataclysmic transition from an older time of darkness to a new solar age relates in mythic form...