Van Veen’s essay focuses on the way in which Fledgling questions the human not just through species, but race, highlighting the need to pay attention to discourses of blackness, black culture, and black feminism in discussing Butler’s work. van Veen argues that Fledgling is particularly crucial to understanding the relationship between discourses of Afrofuturism, which (re)imagine blackness in the future or past by way of science fiction, and posthumanism, which critically re-evaluates Western ideas of the human while proposing models for post-human entanglements with animal, machine, earth, and alien.
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