Afrofuturism - Literary and Critical Theory - Oxford Bibliographies
2017年7月26日 · Afrofuturism refers to a flourishing contemporary movement of African American, African, and Black diasporic writers, artists, musicians, and theorists. Afrofuturism comprises cultural production and scholarly thought—literature, visual art, photography, film, multimedia art, performance art, music, and theory—that imagines greater justice ...
“Africanfuturism is similar to ‘Afrofuturism’ in the way that blacks on the continent and in the Black Diaspora are all connected by blood, spirit, history and future. The difference is that Africanfuturism is specifically and more directly rooted in …
(PDF) Afrofuturism - ResearchGate
2023年2月1日 · Afrofuturism is a body of creative work and academic thought that imagines greater justice and a freer expression of black subjectivity in the future or in alternative times, places, or...
critical sensibilities about Afrofuturism have emerged, troubling well-worn visual and literary tropes such as magical or mutant black characters, and interstellar travel and outer space as the ideal routes to liberation. Reynaldo Anderson and Charles E. Jones define this 2.0 version of Afrofuturism as “the early twenty-first century tech -
focuses on a discussion on the key aspects that constitute Afrofuturism, including the use of settings in the novels as alternative spaces, as well as the depiction of the characters’ bodies and language in terms of alienation and activism. Proto-Afrofuturism, in …
Afrofuturism Rising. Using literary texts such as enslavement narratives, one can see how afrofuturism is the embodied expression of technologies (spiritual, literary, et. al.) that combat the bleak dystopia of the enslavement and Reconstruction eras. By framing afrofuturism in a
A Deconstructive Exploration of Afrofuturism.pdf
This text seeks to approach the artistic, literary, and popular culture phenomena that fall under the umbrella term ‘Afrofuturism’ against the backdrop of a shift in perspective. It is distinct from ‘African futurism,’ which is focused on African cultures, histories, and mythologies rather than on the experience of the diaspora.
(PDF) Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism: Black speculative …
Afrofuturism is a transdisciplinary cultural movement based upon the unusual connection between the marginality of allegedly “primitive” people of the African diaspora and “modern” technology and science fiction. At a first glance, Afrofuturism may sound like an oxymoron.
(PDF) Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy …
Afrofuturism is a transdisciplinary cultural movement based upon the unusual connection between the marginality of allegedly “primitive” people of the African diaspora and “modern” technology and science fiction. At a first glance, Afrofuturism may sound like an oxymoron.
The definition highlights a number of central dimensions, foremost of which is the speculative, the African-American context, the relation to “technoculture,” and the “prosthetically enhanced future.”