CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1
Temporal Liminality in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and A Mercy

CHAPTER 2
Posthuman Solidarity in Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose

CHAPTER 3
Afrofuturist Aesthetics in the Works of Erykah Badu, Janelle Monáe, and Gayl Jones

CHAPTER 4
Posthuman Multiple Consciousness in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction

CHAPTER 5
Submarine Transversality in Texts by Sheree Renée Thomas and Julie Dash

NOTES

WORKS CITED

INDEX