Afro-centered futurisms in our speculative fiction
2024
Book
These sholarly essays are critical and cultural interrogations of African fiction, showcasing how each author's work engages with Afro-centered futurism. Through ethnographic reflections and intense scrutinies of African writing, authors and award winners - including Nuzo Onoh, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Dila Dilman - provide open and diverse reflections of 'Afrofuturism', 'Africanfuturism' and 'Africanjujuism', contributing to an important conversation on the rise of black speculative fiction as it explores diversity and social (in)justice and charts poignant stories with black hero/ines who remake their worlds in a colour zone of their own.
Main title:
Afro-centered futurisms in our speculative fiction / edited by Eugen Bacon.
Author:
Bacon, Eugen M. (Eugen Matoyo), 1971-, editor, author
Imprint:
New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.©2025
Collation:
xv, 235 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
Series title:
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Afrocentric Futurisms-The Case for an Inclusive Expression, Nigeria/Canada / Suyi OkungbowaCosmologies and Languages Building Africanfuturism, South Africa/UK / Stephen EmbletonAn Afrofuturistic Dystopia and the Afro-irreal, Tanzania/Australia / Eugen BaconThe Power of African Spirituality in Africanfuturism, Nigeria/UK / Nuzo OnohBlack-Futurisms Vs. Systems of Domination, Kenya / Shingai Njeri KagundaFaith and Fantasy-Afrofuturist and Africanfuturist Spirituality, Ghana / Cheryl S. NtumyQueer Imaginings in Africanfuturism Inspired by African History, South Africa/Finland / Xan van RooyenAfrofuturism and Exploring Cultural Identity as a Process of Becoming, Rwanda/Australia / Aline-Mwezi NiyonsengaFabulist Imaginings in Tales of the Dark and Fantastic, Nigeria/USA / Tobi OgundiranA Vision for Direct Democracy in Yat Madit, Uganda / Dilman DilaA Gaze At Post-Colonial Themes That Re-Envision Africa, South Africa / Nerine DormanDenouement: Autoethnography-the Self-As-Research, Eugen Bacon, Tanzania/Australia / Eugen Bacon.
ISBN:
9798765114674 (paperback)
Dewey class:
823.087609823.0876
LC class:
PN3448.S64
Language:
English
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BRN:
495839