PART THREE Imagined Futures

Elegy is a genre that enables fantasies about worlds we cannot yet reach, even as it facilitates investments in a world that will outlast us.

—MAX CAVITCH, “AMERICAN ELEGY

For rather than be labelled and defined by racist and sexist ideologies, both these [women] chose to shape and invent themselves through the medium of words and the power of the imagination.

—DIANA MAFE, “SELF-MADE WOMEN IN A (RACIST) MAN’S WORLD