Book Description
Writers and critics explore Afrofuturism as both a historical and a global phenomenon.
Author : Lisa Yaszek
Publisher : New Suns: Race, Gender, and Se
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,65 MB
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814255964
Writers and critics explore Afrofuturism as both a historical and a global phenomenon.
Author : Joshua Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1108838278
This volume explores the most exciting trends in 21st century US fiction's genres, themes, and concepts.
Author : Ytasha L. Womack
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1613747993
2014 Locus Awards Finalist, Nonfiction Category In this hip, accessible primer to the music, literature, and art of Afrofuturism, author Ytasha Womack introduces readers to the burgeoning community of artists creating Afrofuturist works, the innovators from the past, and the wide range of subjects they explore. From the sci-fi literature of Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler, and N. K. Jemisin to the musical cosmos of Sun Ra, George Clinton, and the Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am, to the visual and multimedia artists inspired by African Dogon myths and Egyptian deities, the book's topics range from the "alien" experience of blacks in America to the "wake up" cry that peppers sci-fi literature, sermons, and activism. With a twofold aim to entertain and enlighten, Afrofuturists strive to break down racial, ethnic, and social limitations to empower and free individuals to be themselves.
Author : Joy Sanchez-Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 14,79 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 9780814214732
Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color examines the contributions of late-twentieth- and twenty-first-century US and Canadian science fiction authors of color. By looking at the intersections among science fiction authors of multiple races and ethnicities, Joy Sanchez-Taylor seeks to explain how these authors of color are juxtaposing tropes of science fiction with specific cultural references to comment on issues of inclusiveness in Eurowestern cultures. The central argument of this work is that these authors are challenging science fiction's history of Eurocentric representation through the depiction of communities of color in fantastic or futuristic settings, specifically by using cognitive estrangement and the inclusion of non-Eurowestern cultural beliefs and practices to comment on the alienation of racially dominated groups. By exploring science fiction tropes--such as first contact, genetic modification, post-apocalyptic landscapes, and advanced technologies in the works of Octavia E. Butler, Ted Chiang, Sabrina Vourvoulias, and many others--Sanchez-Taylor demonstrates how authors of various races and ethnicities write science fiction that pays homage to the genre while also creating a more diverse and inclusive portrait of the future.
Author : Marlene S. Barr
Publisher :
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
Release : 2007-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814291566
Author : Reynaldo Anderson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 12,57 MB
Release : 2015-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1498510515
The ideas and practices related to afrofuturism have existed for most of the 20th century, especially in the north American African diaspora community. After Mark Dery coined the word "afrofuturism" in 1993, Alondra Nelson as a member of an online forum, along with other participants, began to explore the initial terrain and intellectual underpinnings of the concept noting that “AfroFuturism has emerged as a term of convenience to describe analysis, criticism and cultural production that addresses the intersections between race and technology.” Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise of Astroblackness represents a transition from previous ideas related to afrofuturism that were formed in the late 20th century around issues of the digital divide, music and literature. Afrofuturism 2.0 expands and broadens the discussion around the concept to include religion, architecture, communications, visual art, philosophy and reflects its current growth as an emerging global Pan African creative phenomenon.
Author : Bernice M. Murphy
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474414869
This groundbreaking collection provides students with a timely and accessible overview of current trends within contemporary popular fiction.
Author : Isiah Lavender III
Publisher : New Suns: Race, Gender, and Se
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 11,95 MB
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814214138
Reexamines canonical African American literary texts as science fiction, applying the narrative practice of afrofuturism in order to better understand the black experience in America.
Author : Alex Zamalin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 11,92 MB
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231547250
Within the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted a transfigured world. Daring to speculate on a future beyond white supremacy, black utopian artists and thinkers offer powerful visions of ways of being that are built on radical concepts of justice and freedom. They imagine a new black citizen who would inhabit a world that soars above all existing notions of the possible. In Black Utopia, Alex Zamalin offers a groundbreaking examination of African American visions of social transformation and their counterutopian counterparts. Considering figures associated with racial separatism, postracialism, anticolonialism, Pan-Africanism, and Afrofuturism, he argues that the black utopian tradition continues to challenge American political thought and culture. Black Utopia spans black nationalist visions of an ideal Africa, the fiction of W. E. B. Du Bois, and Sun Ra’s cosmic mythology of alien abduction. Zamalin casts Samuel R. Delany and Octavia E. Butler as political theorists and reflects on the antiutopian challenges of George S. Schuyler and Richard Wright. Their thought proves that utopianism, rather than being politically immature or dangerous, can invigorate political imagination. Both an inspiring intellectual history and a critique of present power relations, this book suggests that, with democracy under siege across the globe, the black utopian tradition may be our best hope for combating injustice.
Author : Jess Nevins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,70 MB
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1440862060
Providing an indispensable resource for academics as well as readers interested in the evolution of horror fiction in the 20th century, this book provides a readable yet critical guide to global horror fiction and authors. Horror Fiction in the 20th Century encompasses the world of 20th-century horror literature and explores it in a critical but balanced fashion. Readers will be exposed to the world of horror literature, a truly global phenomenon during the 20th century. Beginning with the modern genre's roots in the 19th century, the book proceeds to cover 20th-century horror literature in all of its manifestations, whether in comics, pulps, paperbacks, hardcover novels, or mainstream magazines, and from every country that produced it. The major horror authors of the century receive their due, but the works of many authors who are less well-known or who have been forgotten are also described and analyzed. In addition to providing critical assessments and judgments of individual authors and works, the book describes the evolution of the genre and the major movements within it. Horror Fiction in the 20th Century stands out from its competitors and will be of interest to its readers because of its informed critical analysis, its unprecedented coverage of female authors and writers of color, and its concise historical overview.