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As a philosophical, literary, and visual aesthetic, Afrofuturism has been predominately defined through Anglophone, diasporic expressions. In Afrofuturisms Isaac Vincent Joslin reorients and expands this critical discourse toward colonial and postcolonial Francophone literature and film originating from continental Africa.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Africanfuturism, Development, and Humanities
1. Afrofuturist Ecolinguistics: Redefining the “Science” of Science Fiction
2. Birthing the Future: Métissage and Cultural Hybridity in Francophone African Women’s Writing
3. Child Soldiers: Reinscribing the Human in a Culture of Perpetual War
4. Alienation, Estrangement, and Dreams of Departure: Emigration and the Politics of Global Inequality in (and out of) Francophone Africa
5. “We Don’t Need No Education” Alternative Pedagogies and Epistemologies in Bassek Ba Kobhio’s Sango Malo (1990) and Le Silence de la forêt (2003)
6. Paradis Artificiels: The Lottery of Global Economies in Djibril Diop Mambety’s Le Franc, Imunga Ivanga’s Dôlè, and Fadika Kramo-Lanciné’s Wariko
7. Arguing against the Shame of the State: Sony Labou Tansi’s Ecocritical Womanism and Gaiacene Planetarity
Conclusion: Toward an Afrofuturist Ecohumanist Philosophy of Experience
Notes
References
Index
About the author
Isaac Vincent Joslin is an assistant professor of French at Arizona State University, where his research interests include theories of representation, theories of cultural hybridity, ecocriticism, and African futurisms. His journal publications include articles in the
International Journal of Francophone Studies, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, African Literature Today, French Review, Oeuvres et Critiques, and
Nouvelles Études Francophones.
