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Africanfuturism
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Author : Kimberly Cleveland
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2024-02-27
Africanfuturism written by Kimberly Cleveland and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-27 with Art categories.
In the past few decades, Western studies of Afrofuturism have grown to encompass examples deriving from multiple sites across the diaspora, as well as from the African continent. However, an increasing number of Africans and Africanists have voiced their concerns about grouping African work under the larger umbrella of Afrofuturism without distinction and have emphasized the need to investigate the differences between African American and African production. This book offers an introduction to Africanfuturism—a body of African speculative works that is distinguishable from, albeit related to, US-based Afrofuturism. Kimberly Cleveland uses Africanfuturism as an intellectual lens to explore works that embody combinations of possibilities, challenges, and concerns related to what lies ahead for the continent and its peoples. This book highlights twenty-first-century film, video, painting, sculpture, photography, tapestry, novels, short stories, comic books, song lyrics, and architecture by African creatives of different nationalities, races, ethnicities, genders, and generations. Cleveland analyzes the ideas and opinions of African intellectuals and cultural producers, combining interviews with historical research. Each chapter features one of Africanfuturism’s most common themes: space and time exploration, creation of worlds, technology and the digital divide, Sankofa and remix, and mythmaking. This investigation of Africanfuturism is geared toward students, academics, and Afrofuturism enthusiasts, and its included discussion questions facilitate classroom use. The book illuminates Africa’s place in the worlds of science fiction and fantasy and how Africanfuturist work builds on the continent’s own traditions of speculative expression. Because these creative works disrupt the history of Western domination in Africa, Cleveland also connects Africanfuturism with the process of decolonization and addresses specific ways in which African creatives (re)center indigenous beliefs, strategies, and approaches in their production. Africanfuturism encourages both imaginative possibilities and potential real-world outcomes, highlighting the rich contributions of Africans to the vision of future worlds.
Africanfuturism
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Author : Kimberly Cleveland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-02-27
Africanfuturism written by Kimberly Cleveland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-27 with categories.
A comparative investigation of speculative expression by African creatives, this book features diverse examples of Africanfuturism from across the continent and in different media, including art, literary fiction, film, song lyrics, and comic books. The book is appropriate for students, academics, and general readers.
Afro Centered Futurisms In Our Speculative Fiction
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Author : Eugen Bacon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-11-14
Afro Centered Futurisms In Our Speculative Fiction written by Eugen Bacon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-14 with Fiction categories.
"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"
Expanding Spaces
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Author : Nicholas Nathaniel Simons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Expanding Spaces written by Nicholas Nathaniel Simons and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
In a post-Black Panther, Get Out, and Lovecraft Country era of globalized film, television, and digital consumption, there are new opportunities to expand the boundaries of genres that encompass elements not based in reality, better known as speculative fiction. Two emerging subcategories, Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism, now serve under the umbrella of speculative fiction and incorporate aesthetics of blackness in time and spaces that have scarcely depicted blackness. In addition to these two categories, another lesser-known subcategory exists-Africanjujuism, a classification that centers on mysticism and the supernatural. Employing an explanatory sequential mixed-method design that allowed for a quantitative data analysis and qualitative questioning, this study sought to first examine the landscape of Afrofuturism, Africanfuturism, and Africanjujuism in Hollywood. Secondly, this study sought to determine if historically pervasive tropes about Africa and Africans are as present in Africanfuturistic and Africanjujuistic projects as they are in other projects about Africa and/or Africans. Quantitative results from April 2021 to June 2021 found 45 Afrofuturism projects, four Africanfuturism projects, and 15 Africanjujuism projects in development. In the pool of Africanfuturism projects, there was a 25% rate of trope saturation and in the pool of Africanjujuism projects there was 20% rate of trope saturation. However, in projects about Africa or Africans (outside of Africanfuturism and Africanjujuism), there was a staggering 87% rate of trope saturation. A series of 20 qualitative interviews with high-profile industry stakeholders including, Nate Moore (Black Panther)1, Ahmadou Seck (Gente-fied & Raising Dion)2,3, and Kay Oyegun (This Is Us)4 suggest industry awareness and education about the categories is varied, but has grown exponentially with Black Panther and the culminating impacts of social-justice movements and globalization. However, unique hurdles including a lack of advocacy are potentially inhibiting other projects in the pipeline.
Africanfuturism
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Author : Wole Talabi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Africanfuturism written by Wole Talabi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Science fiction, African categories.
"Here are 8 original visions of Africanfuturism: science fiction stories by both emerging and seasoned African writers staking a claim to Africa's place in the future. These are powerful visions focused on the African experience and hopes and fears, exploring African sciences, philosophies, adaptations to technology and visions of the future both centred on and spiralling out of Africa. You will find stories of the near and almost-present future, tales set on strange and wonderful new planets, stories of a changed Earth, stories that dazzle the imagination and stimulate the mind. Stories that capture the essence of what we talk about when we talk about Africanfuturism." -- Goodreads.com
Exploring Intersections In Black Futures
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Author : Omotoyosi Esther Odukomaiya
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Exploring Intersections In Black Futures written by Omotoyosi Esther Odukomaiya and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with African Americans categories.
This dissertation examines the African science fiction genre also known as Africanfuturism. It assesses distinguishing features of the genre, highlighting connections between Africanfuturism and Afrofuturism. This study interrogates Nnedi Okorafor's coinage and definition of Africanfuturism by exploring her critical works as well as her literary oeuvre with a view to understanding the uniqueness of the genre. A close reading of Okorafor's texts along with other prominent Africanfuturist authors reveals that both genres are inherently different but there are points of convergence. As a result of this, I explore Pan-Africanfuturism as an all-inclusive genre with the potential of embracing all forms of Black futures. In each chapter, I contrast Okorafor's work with a different science fiction author to illustrate how diverse the interpretations of Africanfuturist visions are.
Graphic Novels And Comics As World Literature
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Author : James Hodapp
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2022-04-07
Graphic Novels And Comics As World Literature written by James Hodapp and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
Graphic narratives are one of the world's great art forms, but graphic novels and comics from Europe and the United States dominate scholarly conversations about them. Building upon the little extant scholarship on graphic narratives from the Global South, this collection moves beyond a narrow Western approach to this quickly expanding field. By focusing on texts from the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Asia, these essays expand the study of graphic narratives to a global scale. Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature is also interested in how these texts engage with, fit in with, or complicate notions of World Literature. The larger theoretical framework of World Literature is joined with the postcolonial, decolonial, Global South, and similar approaches that argue explicitly or implicitly for the viability of non-Western graphic narratives on their own terms. Ultimately, this collection explores the ways that the unique formal qualities of graphic narratives from the Global South intersect with issues facing the study of international literatures, such as translation, commodification, circulation, Orientalism, and many others.
Speculative Science Fiction
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Author : Ernest N. Emenyonu
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2021
Speculative Science Fiction written by Ernest N. Emenyonu and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Over the past two decades, there has been a resurgence in the writing of African and African diaspora speculative and science fiction writing. Discussions around the 'rise' of science-fiction and fantasy have led to a push-back by writers and scholars who have suggested that this is not a new phenomenon in African literature. This collection focuses on the need to recalibrate ways of reading and categorising this grenre of African writing through critical examinations both of classics such as Kojo Laing's Woman of the Aeroplanes (1988) and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's oeuvre, as well as more recent fiction from writers including Nnedi Okorafor, Namwali Serpell and Masande Ntshanga."--Back cover.
Handbook Of African Philosophy
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Author : Elvis Imafidon
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-09-30
Handbook Of African Philosophy written by Elvis Imafidon and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-30 with Philosophy categories.
This Handbook provides in one volume rich, comprehensive and rigorous coverage of specific subject areas and thematic concerns in the ever-evolving academic discipline of African philosophy. This Handbook is unique in its focus on central and emerging areas within African philosophy such as Afro-communitarian philosophy, ethics, epistemology, social and political philosophy, existentialism, philosophy of religion, gender philosophy, philosophy of education, phenomenology, transhumanism, African philosophy futures, and philosophy of the non-human. The thirty-two chapters in this Handbook explore the rich textual and non-textual forms of philosophical knowledge in Africa and adequately represent the broad and diverse scope of African philosophy, showing the richness and depth of the philosophical tradition. This reference work is indispensable to students and researchers in African philosophy, comparative philosophy and world philosophies.
An Anthology Of African Cultural Studies Volume Ii
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Author : Handel Kashope Wright
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-10-04
An Anthology Of African Cultural Studies Volume Ii written by Handel Kashope Wright and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-04 with Social Science categories.
This volume focuses on the directions that African cultural studies has taken over the years and covers the following central themes: contemporary issues in African cultural studies; Gender and the making of identity; the dual discourses of Afropessimism and Afrofuturism; problematizing the African diaspora and methodology and African cultural studies. The second of two volumes, the book predominantly pulls together a rich reservoir of previously published articles from Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies. Taken together the two volumes re-expose for international readers sets of theories, methodologies and studies that not only have been influenced by global trends, but which themselves have contributed to shaping those trends. While the first volume addressed foundational themes and issues in African cultural studies, this second volume focuses on the directions that African cultural studies is taking; the complex ways in which gender can be seen at work in the making of identity; the juxtaposition of two relatively new themes in African cultural studies, namely Afropessimism and Afrofuturism; the ways in which the presence of continental Africans in the diaspora problematize taken-for-granted conceptions of diaspora and diasporic identity; identifying some of the methodological issues and approaches that have been taken up in African cultural studies work. This book will be a key resource for academics, researchers and advanced students of African cultural studies, media and cultural studies, African studies, history, politics, sociology, and social and cultural anthropology, while also being of interest to those seeking an introduction to the sub-field of African cultural studies.