Black Speculative Arts Movement - Black Futurity, Art+design

This collection contributes to Afrofuturism studies by focusing on the Black creative experience. Contributors analyze philosophies of utopia, art, music, and histories of visual resistance, and they critique noted works by authors and artists like Octavia Butler, Ralph Ellison, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Janelle Monae, and Colson Whitehead.

List of contents

Forward: 25 Years in a 500 Year Long Song
Sheree Renee Thomas

Introduction: The Year of the Panther
Reynaldo Anderson and Clinton Fluker

Part I: Theory and Extra-Planetary Reason

Chapter One: At the End of "Dasein": An Afro-German Voyage into the Future
Natasha A. Kelly

Chapter Two: Avant-Gardes, Afrofuturism, and Philosophical Readings of Rhythm
Iain Campbell

Chapter Three: Working on the Other Side of Time: An Interview with Rasheedah Phillips
Reynaldo Anderson

Chapter Four: We Speak, We Make, We Tinker: Afrofuturism as Applied Digital Humanities
Toniesha L. Taylor

Chapter Five: Forms of Future/Past: Black Kirby Afrofuturism and the Visual Technologies of Resistance
John Jennings and Clinton R. Fluker

Part II: Coding Utopia and Dystopia

Chapter Six: "Everything is real. It's just not as you see it": Imagination, Utopia, and Afrofuturist Feminism in Octavia E. Butler's "The Book of Martha"
Susana M. Morris

Chapter Seven: African Futurist Themes and Fantasy in Modern

About the author

Reynaldo Anderson is associate professor of communications and chair of the Humanities Department at Harris-Stowe State University. Clinton R. Fluker is assistant director of engagement and scholarship at the Atlanta University Center.Reynaldo Anderson is associate professor of communications and chair of the Humanities Department at Harris-Stowe State University. Cameron White, PhD, is an independent scholar.Clinton R. Fluker is assistant director of engagement and scholarship at the Atlanta University Center.Dike Okoro is associate professor of English and chair of the Humanities Department at Harris Stowe State University.

Summary

This collection contributes to Afrofuturism studies by focusing on the Black creative experience. Contributors analyze philosophies of utopia, art, music, and histories of visual resistance, and they critique noted works by authors and artists like Octavia Butler, Ralph Ellison, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Janelle Monae, and Colson Whitehead.

Product details

• Authors: Reynaldo Fluker Anderson
• Assisted by: Reynaldo Anderson (Editor), Anderson Reynaldo (Editor), Clinton R. Fluker (Editor), Sheree Renée Thomas Fictio (Foreword), editor of Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fictio Sheree Renée Thomas (Foreword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781498510530
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1053-0
• No. of pages: 282
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Ethnic Studies, Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Future Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social forecasting, future studies, Social & cultural anthropology, United States of America, USA, Relating to African American people, Black & Asian Studies, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity