This book contextualizes Afrofuturism's diverse approaches in the past and present through investigations into overlapping horizons between Afrofuturist agendas and other intellectual and/or artistic movements and through explorations of Afrofuturist approaches in 21st century across media cultures and in a transcultural perspective.
This book contextualizes Afrofuturism's diverse approaches in the past and present through investigations into overlapping horizons between Afrofuturist agendas and other intellectual and/or artistic movements and through explorations of Afrofuturist approaches in 21st century across media cultures and in a transcultural perspective.
Eva Ulrike Pirker is Senior Lecturer in Anglophone Studies and Literary Translation at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany, where she also curates the Centre for Translation Studies' programme (ctsdus.hhu.de). Judith Rahn is Lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. She has published on issues of posthumanism, affect and monstrosity.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Afrofuturist trajectories across time, space and media Section 1: Trajectories of Alternative Visions on Three Continents 2. "Afrotopia?": an Afrofuturist examination of Chad Hartigan's film Morris from America (2016) 3. Reframing the post-apocalypse in Black British film: the dystopian Afrofuturism of Welcome II the Terrordome and Shank 4. Wangari Maathai's environmental Afrofuturist imaginary in Wanuri Kahiu's Pumzi Section 2: Afrofuturist Soundscapes 5. A question of the sonic: problematizing Afrofuturism and its relation to Black Sound, with a case study of DJ Steloolive's performance art 6. The cosmic submarine-Yugen Blakrok's sonar echoes Section 3: Envisioning Afrofutures in Literature and Film 7. Math and magic: Nnedi Okorafor's Binti trilogy and its challenge to the dominance of Western science in science fiction 8. Wakanda Africa do you see? Reading Black Panther as a decolonial film through the lens of the Sankofa theory
1. Afrofuturist trajectories across time, space and media Section 1: Trajectories of Alternative Visions on Three Continents 2. "Afrotopia?": an Afrofuturist examination of Chad Hartigan's film Morris from America (2016) 3. Reframing the post-apocalypse in Black British film: the dystopian Afrofuturism of Welcome II the Terrordome and Shank 4. Wangari Maathai's environmental Afrofuturist imaginary in Wanuri Kahiu's Pumzi Section 2: Afrofuturist Soundscapes 5. A question of the sonic: problematizing Afrofuturism and its relation to Black Sound, with a case study of DJ Steloolive's performance art 6. The cosmic submarine-Yugen Blakrok's sonar echoes Section 3: Envisioning Afrofutures in Literature and Film 7. Math and magic: Nnedi Okorafor's Binti trilogy and its challenge to the dominance of Western science in science fiction 8. Wakanda Africa do you see? Reading Black Panther as a decolonial film through the lens of the Sankofa theory
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