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Diana Adesola Mafe
When Lieutenant Uhura took her place on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise on Star Trek, the actress Nichelle Nichols went where no African American woman had ever gone before. Yet several decades passed before many other black women began playing
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Diana Adesola Mafe
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MELUS. 46:43-63
This essay focuses on Nnedi Okorafor’s 2015 novel The Book of Phoenix and reads the black female protagonist and narrator, Phoenix Okore, as a powerful metaphor for a radical twenty-first-century black feminist politics and a signifier of the conte
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Diana Adesola Mafe
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Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies. 30:89-123
This article argues that the 2013 first-person shooter (FPS) video game BioShock Infinite (2K Games) challenges gamers in its representations of race. Launched in 2007, the BioShock franchise has a reputation for thoughtful dystopian narratives, beau
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Diana Adesola Mafe
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The Journal of Popular Culture. 48:443-463
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Diana Adesola Mafe
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African American Review. 48:33-48
This article reads the comic-book series Y: The Last Man as a subversive articulation of critical race and feminist discourses despite the guise of Eurocentricity and the pretext of a white male “protagonist.” I argue that the true protagonist of
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Diana Adesola Mafe
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African American Review. 50:81-82
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Diana Adesola Mafe
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Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies. 25:69-99
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Diana Adesola Mafe
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Safundi. 9:427-455
And I hybrid, after Mendel, growing between the wire and the wall, being dogsbody, being me, buffer you still.1 1 Nortje, “Dogsbody Half-Breed”, 345. No presentation of Arthur Nortje could separate...
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Diana Adesola Mafe
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English Academy Review. 25:66-76
Nella Larsen, the ‘mystery woman of the Harlem Renaissance,’ and Bessie Head, the famous ‘woman alone,’ are known for their ambiguous origins and their fabrication of personal ‘facts.'This article argues that these mixed race female writers