Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction

With creative essays from award-winning African writers of black speculative fiction, this engaging and approachable book seeks to address the lack of critical conversations on Afrofuturism and Afro-centered futurisms from people who intimately understand the continent and its traditions. Since the term''s creation in the 1990s by Mark Dery, scholarly essays and books on Afrofuturism have increasingly reimagined the past and present experiences of the African diaspora, exploring what black futures could look like. Unified by a shared heritage, writers of African descent have their differential languages, cultures, and stories that diversify their critical articulations of a reimagined Africa. Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction features scholarly essays that are critical and cultural interrogations of African fiction, showcasing how each author''s work engages with a specifically Afro-centered futurism. Authors and award winners - including Eugen Bacon, Nuzo Onoh, Cheryl S. Ntumy, Dare Segun Falowo, Dilman Dila, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Shingai Njeri Kagundan - provide boldly hybrid chapters (both creative and scholarly) that interface Afrocentric artefacts and exegesis. Through ethnographic reflections and intense scrutinies of African writing, these writers contribute open and diverse reflections of "Afrofuturism," "Africanfuturism," and "Africanjujuism." The authors in Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction are intrinsic participants in this important conversation on the rise of black speculative fiction that explores diversity and social (in)justice and charts poignant stories with black hero/ines who remake their worlds in a color zone of their own image.>

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Abimbola Adelakun, Eugen Bacon, Toyin Falola
• Con la collaborazione di: Eugen Bacon (Editore), Abimbola Adelakun (Editore della collana), Toyin Falola (Editore della collana)
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 14.11.2024
• EAN: 9798765114667
• ISBN: 9798765114667
• Pagine: 256
• Dimensioni: 164 mm x 234 mm x 26 mm
• Serie: Black Literary and Cultural Expressions
• Categorie: Narrativa > Science Fiction, Fantasy; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altre lingue / altre letterature; Science Fiction, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, Migration, immigration & emigration, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Black & Asian Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, Literary studies: from c 2000, Relating to people of the African diasporas / heritage, Black Speculative fiction