Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 14 November 2024
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9798765114674
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 228x152x12 mm
- Weight 400 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 b&w illustration 654
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Short description:
Creative essays from award-winning African writers speak to the multiple futurisms in their black speculative fiction.
MoreLong description:
? 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards FINALIST
? Shortlisted listed for the 2024 British Science Fiction Association Award (BSFA), Best Short Non-Fiction
? Long-listed for the 2024 BSFA Award, Best Non-Fiction
? 2024 Locus Recommended Reading List
? One of Brittle Paper's 100 Notable African Books of 2024
? One of Open Country Mag's 60 Notable African Books of 2024
In this vibrant and approachable book, award-winning writers of black speculative fiction bring together excerpts from their work and creative reflections on futurisms with original essays.
Features an introduction by Suyi Okungbowa.
Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction showcases creative-critical essays that negotiate genre bending and black speculative fiction with writerly practice. As Afrodecendant peoples with lived experience from the continent, award-winning authors use their intrinsic voices in critical conversations on Afrofuturism and Afro-centered futurisms. By engaging with difference, they present a new kind of African study that is an evaluative gaze at African history, African spirituality, Afrosurrealism, "becoming," black radical imagination, cultural identity, decolonizing queerness, myths, linguistic cosmologies, and more.
Contributing authors - Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga, Cheryl S. Ntumy, Dilman Dila, Eugen Bacon, Nerine Dorman, Nuzo Onoh, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Stephen Embleton, Suyi Okungbowa, Tobi Ogundiran and Xan van Rooyen - offer boldly hybrid chapters (both creative and scholarly) that interface Afrocentric artefacts and exegesis. Through ethnographic reflections and intense scrutinies of African fiction, these writers contribute open and diverse reflections of Afro-centered futurisms.
The authors in Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction feature in major genre and literary awards, including the Bram Stoker, World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Locus, Ignyte, Nommo, Philip K. Dick, Shirley Jackson and Otherwise Awards, among others. They are also intrinsic partners in a vital conversation on the rise of black speculative fiction that explores diversity and social (in)justice, charting poignant stories with black hero/ines who remake their worlds in color zones of their own image.
Table of Contents:
Preface
? The Structure of This Book
1. Suyi Okungbowa: Afrocentric Futurisms - The Case for an Inclusive Expression, Nigeria/Canada
2. Stephen Embleton: Cosmologies and Languages Building Africanfuturism, South Africa/UK
3. Eugen Bacon: An Afrofuturistic Dystopia and the Afro-irreal, Tanzania/Australia
4. Nuzo Onoh: The Power of African Spirituality in Africanfuturism, Nigeria/UK
5. Shingai Njeri Kagunda: Black Futurisms Vs. Systems of Domination, Kenya
6. Cheryl S. Ntumy: Faith and Fantasy - Afrofuturist and Africanfuturist Spirituality, Ghana
7. Xan van Rooyen: Queer Imaginings in Africanfuturism Inspired by African History, South Africa/Finland
8. Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga: Afrofuturism and Exploring Cultural Identity as a Process of Becoming, Rwanda/Australia
9. Tobi Ogundiran: Fabulist Imaginings in Tales of the Dark and Fantastic, Nigeria/USA
10. Dilman Dila: A Vision for Direct Democracy in Yat Madit, Uganda
11. Nerine Dorman: A Gaze at Post-Colonial Themes That Re-Envision Africa, South Africa
12. Denouement: Autoethnography - The Self-As-Research, Eugen Bacon, Tanzania/Australia
Acknowledgements
Index
Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction
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