Afro-Futurism: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & Speculations "The Serpent Slain: African America and the Restorers of the Balance"

A linguistic analysis of a recording made in a Southern state that recounts the slaying of a mythical serpent or serpent woman by a culture hero. The latter's name is Nadele man (man from Ndele, central Africa). The tale also contains the motif of escape by taking flight, as in Toni Morrison's novel Song of Solomon, a novel which in turn tells of a very African-orientated African American woman Pilate. The same kind of Pilate-figure features in the McClung recording, as the 99 year-old multilingual, creole-speaking Black woman who is the culture-bearer and teller of the tale. David Sutcliffe visits us from The University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain and is author of "Situating United States African American Vernacular English in Linguistic Space."