Afrofuturism's Transcultural Trajectories (eBook, PDF)

Resistant Imaginaries Between Margins and Mainstreams
Redaktion: Pirker, Eva Ulrike; Rahn, Judith

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000842586
• Artikelnr.: 67269188

Autorenporträt

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