Interview of author Tenea D. Johnson at the Zora Neale Hurston Festival in Eatonville, Florida
Tenea D. Johnson, award winning author and founder of Progress By Design, is interviewed by Grace Chun, project coordinator at University of Florida Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, as part of the Zora Neale Hurston Festival in Eatonville, Florida. Tenea speaks about her work, afrofuturism, and how her stories and songs create worlds to examine big questions. She defines speculative fiction anything that doesn't abide by the rules, that is not based in reality. Tenea says she hopes that afrofuturism and Black speculative fiction will become a greater force than just entertainment and that Zora Neale Hurston's ethnographies influenced her the most as she demonstrated confidence not out of ego but of skill, exemplifying bravery and openness.
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- In Collections
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Voices of the Black Imaginary
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 2020-01-31
- Interviewees
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Johnson, Tenea D.
- Interviewers
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Chun, Grace (Graduate of University of Florida)
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
Interviews
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:23:01
- Venue Note
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Recorded 2020 January 31
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 45469
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b13824620
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