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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 African Speculative Fiction
Dike Okoro
Chapter Eight: B[l]ack to the Future: Futurism and Blackness in Zone One
Souleymane Ba
Chapter Nine: Dragons, Vescells, and Writing Afro-Latino Futures: An Interview with Enrique Carrion
Stacey Robinson
Chapter Ten: "The Electric Impulse:" The Legba Circuit in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Sherese Francis
Part III: Blackness and Planetary Praxis
Chapter Eleven: Ashes to Ashes: The Second Life of Kiluanji Kia Henda's Afrofuturist Critique
Dariel Cobb
Chapter Twelve: Metropolis 2.0: Janelle Monáe's Recycling of Fritz Lang
Erik Steinskog
Chapter Thirteen: Designing Love: Reimagining Technology and Intimacy
Ebony A. Utley
Chapter Fourteen: Performing Black Imagination: The Critical Embodiment of Transfuturism
Amber Johnson
Chapter Fifteen: Fabulous Camps of the Black Fantastic: Sylvester James, Queer Afrofuturism, and Black Vernacular Becomings
tobias c. van Veen and Reynaldo Anderson
Part IV: Images on the Other Side of Time
Chapter Sixteen: Funky Images on the Other Side of Time: Various Artists
Wriply Marie Bennet, Tim Fielder, John Jennings, Jessi Jumanji, Amber Johnson, Sheeba Maya, Stacey Robinson, and Quentin VerCetty
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.
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.
