{"id":18079,"date":"2014-02-08T16:09:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T16:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-central-fact-in-black-science-fiction\/"},"modified":"2014-02-08T16:09:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T16:09:54","slug":"the-central-fact-in-black-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-central-fact-in-black-science-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The central fact in Black Science Fiction &#8211; self-consciously so named or not &#8211; is an acknowledgement that Apocalypse already happened: that (in PE\u2019s phrase) Armageddon been in effect. Black SF writers &#8211; Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler &#8211; write about worlds after catastrophic disaster; about the modalities of identity without hope of resolution, where race and nation and neighborhood and family are none of them enough to obviate betrayal\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Mark Sinker,\u00a0<em>Loving The Alien: Black Science Fiction<\/em> (1992)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The central fact in Black Science Fiction &#8211; self-consciously so named or not &#8211; is an acknowledgement that Apocalypse already happened: that (in PE\u2019s phrase) Armageddon been in effect. Black SF writers &#8211; Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler &#8211; write about worlds after catastrophic disaster; about the modalities of identity without hope of resolution, where race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4HB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}