Futurism and the African Imagination

Literature and Other Arts
Herausgeber: Okoro, Dike

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates how African authors and artists have explored themes of the future and technology within their works. Afrofuturism was coined in the 1990s as a means of exploring the intersection of African diaspora culture with technology, science and science fiction. However, this book argues that literature and other arts within Africa have always reflected on themes of futurism, across diverse forms of speculative writing (including science fiction), images, spirituality, myth, magical realism, the supernatural, performance and other forms of oral resources. This book reflects on themes of African futurism across a range of literary and artistic works, also investigating how problems such as racism, sexism, social injustice and postcolonialism are reflected in these narratives. Chapters cover authors, artists, movements and performers such Wole Soyinka, Ben Okri, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Elechi Amadi, Mazisi Kunene, Nnedi Okorafor, Lauren Beukes, Leslie Nneka Arimah and the New African Movement. The book also includes a range of original interviews with prominent authors and artists, including Tanure Ojaide, Lauren Beukes, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Benjamin Kwakye, Ntongela Masilela and Bruce Onobrakpeya. Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book will be an important resource for researchers across the fields of African literature, philosophy, culture and politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781032015699
• ISBN-10: 1032015691
• Artikelnr.: 68710498

Autorenporträt

Dike Okoro is Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Humanities Department at Harris Stowe State University, USA. He is the author of Lupenga Mphande; Ecocritical Poet/Political Activist (2021). Okoro is a Senior Research Fellow at Ken Saro-Wiwa Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Origins/Present Manifestations in Literature 1. Futuristic Themes
and Science Fiction in Modern African Literature 2. Objects Want to Have a
Purpose: Animate Materiality, Space, and Identity in African Women Science
Fiction 3. A Narrative of Resistance in the Face of Stasis 4. Elechi Amadi:
The Paradox of a Great Teacher who Objects to Teaching 5. The Poet as
Philosopher 6. The Metaphor of Change in Wole Soyinka's Death and the
King's Horseman 7. The Art of Writing and the Writer's World: An Interview
with Lauren Beukes 8. Futuristic Themes in Modern African Poetry Part II:
Further Manifestations: Theories, Literature and Performance 9. Mazisi
Kunene and the New African Movement 10. The Greatness of Mazisi Kunene and
the Influence of Zulu Cosmology 11. Visual Dissidence and Postcolonial
Tunisian Film 12. My Writing, My Influences! A Niger Delta Writer's
Reflection on Arts, Politics and Society 13. African Fiction and the Prison
Experience: An Interview with Benjamin Kwakye 14. Afrobeat Poetry and the
African Imagination 15. The Story of Akorshi Litong Mystical Dance: A
Bette-Bendi Cultural Production 16. A Conversation between Patricia Jabbeh
Wesley and Dike Okoro Part III: Inferences in Other Arts 17. A Conversation
with Bruce Onobrakeya