Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction
Bloomsbury Publishing USA (Verlag)
979-8-7651-1467-4 (ISBN)
Since the term’s creation in the 1990s by Mark Dery, scholarly essays and books on Afrofuturism have increasingly reimagined the past and present experiences of the African diaspora, exploring what black futures could look like. Unified by a shared heritage, writers of African descent have their differential languages, cultures, and stories that diversify their critical articulations of a reimagined Africa. Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction features scholarly essays that are critical and cultural interrogations of African fiction, showcasing how each author's work engages with a specifically Afro-centered futurism.
Authors and award winners – including Eugen Bacon, Nuzo Onoh, Cheryl S. Ntumy, Dare Segun Falowo, Dilman Dila, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Shingai Njeri Kagundan – provide boldly hybrid chapters (both creative and scholarly) that interface Afrocentric artefacts and exegesis. Through ethnographic reflections and intense scrutinies of African writing, these writers contribute open and diverse reflections of "Afrofuturism," "Africanfuturism," and "Africanjujuism."
The authors in Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction are intrinsic participants in this important conversation on the rise of black speculative fiction that explores diversity and social (in)justice and charts poignant stories with black hero/ines who remake their worlds in a color zone of their own image.
Eugen Bacon, MA, MSc, PhD, is an African Australian author of Writing Speculative Fiction: Creative and Critical Approaches (Bloomsbury, 2019) and several novels and fiction collections. She is a 2022 World Fantasy Award finalist, and her Danged Black Thing was a finalist in the 2023 BSFA, Foreword, Aurealis and Australian Shadows Awards, and made the Otherwise Award Honor List. Her recent books include Mage of Fools (novel), Chasing Whispers (collection) and An Earnest Blackness (essays). Visit her website at eugenbacon.com and Twitter feed at @EugenBacon.
Chapter 1. On Afrocentric Futurisms: The Case for an Inclusive Expression
Suyi Okungbowa, Nigeria/Canada
Chapter 2. Cosmologies and Languages Building Africanfuturism: From Bones & Runes to the Sauúti Collective
Stephen Embleton, South Africa/UK
Chapter 3. An Afrofuturistic Dystopia and the Afro-irreal in Mage of Fools and Chasing Whispers
Eugen Bacon, Tanzania/Australia
Chapter 4. A Dance of the Dead and the Power of African Spirituality in Africanfuturism
Nuzo Onoh, Nigeria/UK
Chapter 5. Faith and Fantasy: Afrofuturist and Africanfuturist spirituality in ‘Godmother’ and The Chronicles of the Countless Clans
Cheryl S. Ntumy, Ghana
Chapter 6. Queer Imaginings in Africanfuturism Inspired by African History
Xan van Rooyen, South Africa/Finland
Chapter 7. Afrofuturism and exploring cultural identity as a process of becoming in ‘Fell Our Selves'
Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga, Rwanda/Australia
Chapter 8. Imagining African knowledge systems in Yat Madit
Dilman Dila, Uganda
Chapter 9. Surrealist Dreamscapes in Jackal, Jackal
Tobi Ogundiran, Nigeria/USA
Chapter 10. Afro-surreal as Anti-Capitalist Resistance
Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Kenya
Chapter 11. Going Home: Cosmic Pilgrimages in Convergence in ‘Chorus Architecture’ and ‘Biscuit & Milk’
Dare Segun Falowo, Nigeria
Chapter 12. Religion on the Spectrum of Futurism, and the Non-linear Flow of Time
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Nigeria
Chapter 13. Denouement: Contextualizing ethnographic writing from a scholarly approach
Eugen Bacon, Tanzania/Australia
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.11.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Black Literary and Cultural Expressions |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 b&w illustration |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy |
| Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 979-8-7651-1467-4 / 9798765114674 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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