Journal |
Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
Journal issue | 58 | 2024
Research Article | The Strange Career of a Black Utopia
The Strange Career of a Black Utopia
Ethiopia, The Land of Promise. A Book with a Purpose, by Charles Henry Holmes (aka Clayton Adams)
- M. Giulia Fabi - Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Italia - email
Abstract
This essay presents archival information about Charles H. Holmes and argues that his understudied novel, Ethiopia, The Land of Promise (1917), represents an important chapter in the history of Afrofuturism and American speculative fiction. The literary critical relevance of Ethiopia emerges forcefully from Holmes’s intertextual dialogue with other utopian and science fiction authors, such as Martin R. Delany, Sutton E. Griggs, Pauline E. Hopkins, Frances E.W. Harper, Edward Bellamy, and W.E.B. Du Bois. Holmes’s critique of Jim Crow segregation enables the articulation of a “distinctly revolutionary” project for African American futurity.
Submitted: May 29, 2024 | Accepted: June 17, 2024 | Published Sept. 30, 2024 | Language: en
Keywords Afrofuturism • Science fiction • Utopia • African American fiction • Charles Henry Holmes
Copyright © 2024 M. Giulia Fabi. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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The Strange Career of a Black Utopia. Ethiopia, The Land of Promise. A Book with a Purpose, by Charles Henry Holmes (aka Clayton Adams) |
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Fabi M. Giulia |
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Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari |
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Research Article |
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en |
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http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-occidentale/2024/58/the-strange-career-of-a-black-utopia/ |
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dc.description.abstract |
This essay presents archival information about Charles H. Holmes and argues that his understudied novel, Ethiopia, The Land of Promise (1917), represents an important chapter in the history of Afrofuturism and American speculative fiction. The literary critical relevance of Ethiopia emerges forcefully from Holmes’s intertextual dialogue with other utopian and science fiction authors, such as Martin R. Delany, Sutton E. Griggs, Pauline E. Hopkins, Frances E.W. Harper, Edward Bellamy, and W.E.B. Du Bois. Holmes’s critique of Jim Crow segregation enables the articulation of a “distinctly revolutionary” project for African American futurity. |
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Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale |
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Vol. 58 | September 2024 |
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dc.issued |
2024-09-30 |
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dc.dateAccepted |
2024-06-17 |
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dc.dateSubmitted |
2024-05-29 |
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2499-1562 |
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dc.rights |
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.30687/AnnOc/2499-1562/2024/12/001 |
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yes |
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dc.subject |
African American fiction |
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dc.subject |
Afrofuturism |
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dc.subject |
Charles Henry Holmes |
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dc.subject |
Science fiction |
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dc.subject |
Utopia |
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