Afrofuturisms in the Afrodiaspora
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This book gathers Afrodiasporic and Black feminist perspectives on Afrodiasporic speculative literatures and Black speculative fiction.
Seeking to deepen the knowledge and understanding of Afrofuturism as a literary aesthetic and analytical tool for engaging contemporary and global expressions of the Black experience, this collection features authors who focus specifically on global iterations of Black speculative fiction, whether produced in the US, UK, or elsewhere. Through literary readings that turn to issues of Black liberation politics, decolonization, religion, spirituality, aesthetics, the city, motherhood, and feminism, these essays engage questions and concepts of speculative Blackness in local, transnational, and global contexts.
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Table of Contents
'BioDun J. Ogundayo
Section 1 - Literary Theory and Cultural Perspectives on Afrofuturism
1. Afrofuturism in Traditional African Temporal Thoughts
Doyin Ogunfeyimi
2. Afrofuturism and Postcolonialism
Sebastian Urbaniak
3. A Globalist View of African Music and Afrofuturism
Abiodun M. Bello
4. Afrofuturism: Reflections on Internet Technology, Pop-Media, and Politics
Ndaba Sibanda
Section 2 - Afrofuturism and Afrodiaspora Speculative Fiction: Comparative Perspectives
5. Nalo Hopkinson's Afro-Caribbean Futurist Imagination
Jarrel de Matas
6. Afrofuturist Identities: Niger in Nnedi Okorafor's Fiction
Gado Alzouma
7.Afrofuturist Utopia and American History
Leah Norris
8. Africanfuturism, Shapeshifting, And Transcendence
Christine L. Montgomery
9. Futurizing the Unbearable and Madness: Octavia Butler's Afrofuturism
Sarah Abdelshamy
10. The Afrofuturism of Afrodiasporan Fiction
'BioDun J. Ogundayo
Section 3: Afrofuturism and African American Pop (TV) Culture
11. Black Women Claim Their Afrofuture
Piper Williams & Kameryn Richardson
12. Afrofuturism and Black Professionals in 1990s TV Series
Sydney Epps
Section 4: Cybertechnology and Afrofuturism in Modern African American Fiction
13. Innovating Subjectivity: Upgrades and Invisible Man's “thinker-tinker” Protagonist
Eva Sibinga
14. W.E.B. Du Bois's Afrofuturist Speculations in Black Life Insurance
Kathie Bradshaw
Product details
| Published | 13 May 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9798216266273 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Afrofuturist Studies & the Speculative Arts |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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