Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison ve Octavia Butler'ın proto-afrofütürist ve afrofütürist eserlerinde alternatif alanlar, kimlik ve dil

Although there have been a few scholars that have characterized Ralph Ellison and Zora Neale Hurston as writers who have contributed to the development of early forms of Afrofuturism, these studies are limited with the use of technology and sound, and African-American women's place in society as they are depicted in the novels. Moreover, they do not approach such early Afrofuturistic works in the context of decolonization mainly due to the heavy interest given on technology and future. This study will focus on how Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Ellison's Invisible Man can be categorized particularly as proto-Afrofuturist works because of the writers' use of decolonized alternative spaces and technological discourse to generate alternative futures. In addition, Octavia Butler's Kindred will be analyzed as an Afrofuturistic novel. More specifically, this study will focus on a discussion on the key aspects that constitute Afrofuturism including the use of settings in the novels as alternative spaces, as well as the depiction of the characters' body and language in terms of alienation and decolonization of the characters within a reading of Afrofuturism.