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ISBN: 9781847012852 184701285X 1800102895 1800102909 9781800102897 9781800102903 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.
ISBN: 1558493735 1558493832 Year: 2003 Publisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press,
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