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The Languages of Afrofuturism [PDF]

Lingue e Linguaggi, 2015
- 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.
Adriano Elia
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Data and Afrofuturism: an emancipated subject? [PDF]

Internet Policy Review, 2021
The concept of an individual, liberal data subject, who was traditionally at the centre of data protection efforts has recently come under scrutiny. At the same time, the particularly destructive effect of digital technology on Black people establishes ...
Aisha P.L. Kadiri
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ХХХI Zora! Festival and Multiverse: Introduction to Afrofuturism Conference (Eatonville-Orlando, Florida, USA) [PDF]

Литература двух Америк, 2020
The review outlines the major topics of the conference on Afrofuturism in the framework of the ZORA! Festival of Arts and Humanities which took place on January 25 – February 2, 2020 at the UCF, Orlando and Eatonville.
Irina V. Morozova
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Ben Ngobeni’s cosmo-dramas of the Afrofuture [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology, 2021
The print series entitled Bridge of the Spirits (2017) by visual artist Ben Ngobeni is redolent with depictions of “the cosmos” or outer-space. In this series, the bull is a prominent motif as it is represented literally and in some works, indirectly ...
Dr Thabang Monoa
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Mapping the Black Comic Imaginary: Beyond the Black Panther at the MSU Museum

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 2021
The historical link between Afrofuturism and comics offers a vital avenue to explore black speculative practice. Identifying comics that reflect the structure of Afrofuturism provides a critical way to understand the intersection between liberation and ...
Julian C Chambliss
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Houses on Fire: The Hauntologies of Sankomota [PDF]

Kronos, 2023
The following essay is part of a body of work titled Signal to Noise: sound and fury in (post)apartheid South Africa. These are a collection of creative non-fiction essays set against the backdrop of my involvement with a small, independent mobile ...
Warrick Swinney
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Mutual Adaptation as a Guarantee of the Future: Octavia Butler’s Works [PDF]

Литература двух Америк, 2022
The article investigates works by Octavia E. Butler (1947 –2006), an African-American writer who had a significant impact on the development of science fiction in the USA and the world.
Artem A. Zubov
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Afrofuturism: Race, Erasure, and COVID

Radical Teacher, 2022
Introduction to the issue on Teaching ...
Belinda Deneen Wallace, Jesse W. Schwartz   +1 more
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Time-Sensitive: Teaching Afrofuturism Through the Nineteenth Century

Radical Teacher, 2022
"Time-Sensitive: Teaching Afrofuturism Through the Nineteenth Century" describes a strategy of teaching Afrofuturism that exposes its long and ongoing history.
Dalia Davoudi
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Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2020), 248pp.

Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, 2021
Marijana Miki´c reviews Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek's edited volume Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century (The Ohio State University Press, 2020).
Marijana Mikić
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