#BlackHistory337 - 7: High Fantasy

URL

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/BlackHistory337-7-High-Fantasy-1368378709

CONTENT

#BlackHistory337 is about the time outside the 28 days designated as Black History Month, an opportunity to celebrate the contributions of the Black community during the other 337 days of the year. Let's continue learning all year long, because history doesn't stop when February ends.

For this edition of #Black337 the focus is the genre commonly advertised as "High Fantasy". Fables , Fictional Slave Narratives , Comics , Detective Stories , plus High Fantasy are all fiction.

Fables are fantasy as they have magical worlds/entities/objects/ or similar. Magic is defined as unsupported by what is known or science. Sometimes fictional slave narratives or comics or detective stories can be fantasy, but they don't have to be. So what is "High Fantasy" ?

"High Fantasy" is fantasy with alot of details: Maps/Appendixes/Artworks.

For example, no character type or story element in Tolkiens "Lord of the Rings" is absent in other fantasies. Magical Beings like elves or eagles who can talk are in all fantasy. Magical worlds like Mordor are in all fantasy. Magical cities like Osgiliath are in all fantasy. People descended from magical bloodlines like Aragorn are in all fantasy. Wizards like Saruman are in all fantasy. The variance in "Lord of the rings" are the details: maps, appendixes with bloodlines, appendixes with histories after the main contents of the book.

In Global Black Fiction ,from the Song of Sundiata to High John to Anansi , fantasy elements are plentiful. But, very few works in the near past from the time of this writing, had the details that make "High Fantasy" variant from other fantasy.

The Children of Blood and Bone from Tomi Adeyemi is being made into a film for 2017.

https://youtu.be/LBg1OpxHMa0?si=BJYf6qvbxlAlA76L

GALLERY OF INSPIRED WORK

MONTHLY CONTENT

The following are high fantasy from Richard Murray @HDdeviant

An Example of High Fantasy content, inspired by @Kuroshi-tenshi

BLACK HIGH FANTASY EXAMPLES

Lore of the Wilds from Analeigh Sbrana- map and appendix

https://analeighsbrana.com/image-with-title-and-description/

Children of Blood and Bone Tomi Adeyemi- map

https://tomiadeyemi.com/the-writer/

BLACK FANTASY EXAMPLES

Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko - no map or appendix

https://www.jordanifueko.com/books

The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna - no map or appendix

https://naminaforna.com/the-gilded-ones-1

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