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ISBN: 9781847012852 184701285X 1800102895 1800102909 9781800102897 Year: 2021 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY James Currey
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Over the past two decades, there has been a resurgence in the writing of African and African diaspora speculative and science fiction writing. Recent discussions around the "rise of science-fiction and fantasy" in Africa have led to a push-back, in which writers and scholars have suggested that science fiction and fantasy is not a new phenomenon in African literature, but that the deep past of the African world and its complex and mysterious foundations still register in burgeoning modern literary productions. Such influences can be seen in early twentieth-century writers such as D.O. Fagunwa's classic novel (1938) Ogboji Ode ninu Igbo Irunmale (The Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga), the mythopoeia of Elechi Amadi's The Concubine (1966) as well as the dystopian writing of Buchi Emecheta in The Rape of Shavi (1983). This volume shows this long tradition of speculative literature in examining African classics such as Kojo Laing's Woman of the Aeroplanes (1988) and the oeuvre of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. The volume also critically examines modern African texts from writers including Nnedi Okorafor, Namwali Serpell and Masande Ntshanga, as well as critically looking at the terms 'Afrofuturism' and 'Africanfuturism' vis-à-vis their particular cultural aesthetics and suitability in describing tradition rooted African speculative arts.
African fiction --- Science fiction, African --- Speculative fiction --- Fiction --- African science fiction --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- History ans criticism --- African classics. --- African literature. --- African writers. --- Africanfuturism. --- Afrofuturism. --- cultural aesthetics. --- dystopian writing. --- genealogy. --- language. --- science fiction. --- speculative fiction. --- terminology. --- tradition.
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ISBN: 3839446015 9783839446010 3837646017 9783837646016 9783837646016 3837646017 Year: 2019 Publisher: Bielefeld
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A new take on Afrofuturism, this book gathers together a range of contemporary voices who, carrying legacies of 500 years of contact between Africa, Europe, and the Americas, reach towards the stars and unknown planets, galaxies, and ways of being. Writing from queer and feminist perspectives and circumnavigating continents, they recalibrate definitions of Afrofuturism. The editors and contributors of this exciting volume thus reflect upon the re-emergence of Black visions of political and cultural futures, proposing practices, identities, and collectivities. With contributions from AfroFuturist Affair, John Akomfrah, Jamika Ajalon, Stefanie Alisch, Jim Chuchu, Grisha Coleman, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Abigail DeVille, M. Asli Dukan with Wildseeds, Kodwo Eshun, Anna Everett, Raimi Gbadamosi, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Milumbe Haimbe, Ayesha Hameed, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Kara Keeling, Carla J. Maier, Tobias Nagl, Tavia Nyongo, Rasheedah Phillips, Daniel Kojo Schrade, Nadine Siegert, Robyn Smith, Greg Tate and Frohawk Two Feathers. »Für die Forschung zum Afrofuturismus stellt der Band ein repräsentatives und in der Zukunft sicher unerlässliches Referenzwerk dar.« Mark Schmitt, MEDIENwissenschaft, 4 (2020) Besprochen in: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, 22/1 (2020), Vera Mader www.centrum3.at, 6 (2020)
Science --- Science education --- Scientific education --- Study and teaching. --- Africa. --- African Art. --- African Science Fiction. --- Art. --- Cultural Studies. --- Diaspora. --- Gender Studies. --- Gender. --- Postcolonialism. --- Time. --- African American art --- African American art. --- African Americans --- African diaspora. --- Afrofuturism. --- American literature --- Art, African --- Art, African. --- Civilization. --- Postcolonialism --- Science fiction, African --- Science fiction, African. --- Science fiction, American --- Science fiction, American. --- History and criticism. --- Social conditions. --- African American authors --- African American authors. --- Africa --- Afrofuturism; African Science Fiction; Time; Art; Diaspora; Postcolonialism; Gender; Gender Studies; African Art; Africa; Cultural Studies --- Eastern Hemisphere
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