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아프로-미래주의로 재고찰한 조지 스카일러의 할렘 르네상스 풍자소설 『블랙 노 모어』 = George Schuyler's satirical harlem renaissance novel Black No More revisited through the lens of afrofuturism
This paper is a critical attempt to reexamine the narrative strategies of George Schuyler’s satirical Harlem Renaissance novel Black No More through the twin lenses of Afrofuturism and speculative fiction. Seen from the Afrofuturist perspective, Black No More can be positioned as an earliest example of the speculative fiction written by an African American author. The extrapolation upon which Black No More is based shows that a technological novum called the Black-No-More process turns black people white. As a consequence, the racial metamorphosis plunges the black population into chaos and simultaneously upsets the entire American social order. To elaborate on this chaotic landscape of future America, I have recourse to Afrofuturism which can broach the long-delayed conversation about race and science fiction. Also inquiring into the America’s racial irony represented in the ending of this black speculative fiction, I argue that Black No More dares to run the risk of self-making in the unknown time and space of future America.