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International Journal of Francophone Studies, 2020
Recently, there has been a surge of African screen media representations of environmental awareness and solutions for sustainable communities as the Global South experiences increasing urban migration and climate change. Much of the focus in this work is on the precarity of daily life for those on the margins of large urban agglomerations. This article
Marie-Paule Macdonald, Sheila Petty
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Recently, there has been a surge of African screen media representations of environmental awareness and solutions for sustainable communities as the Global South experiences increasing urban migration and climate change. Much of the focus in this work is on the precarity of daily life for those on the margins of large urban agglomerations. This article
Marie-Paule Macdonald, Sheila Petty
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Afrofuturism's Transcultural Trajectories
2023The future is a contested terrain and one that has in recent years been debated, theorized and imaginatively constructed with an unprecedented, albeit unsurprising, sense of urgency. The recent Afrofuturist imaginary is an increasingly noticeable field in these debates and manifestations, requesting as it does the envisioning of a future through an ...
Eva Ulrike Pirker, Judith Rahn
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2017
Afrofuturism refers to a flourishing contemporary movement of African American, African, and Black diasporic writers, artists, musicians, and theorists. Afrofuturism comprises cultural production and scholarly thought—literature, visual art, photography, film, multimedia art, performance art, music, and theory—that imagines greater justice and a freer ...
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Afrofuturism refers to a flourishing contemporary movement of African American, African, and Black diasporic writers, artists, musicians, and theorists. Afrofuturism comprises cultural production and scholarly thought—literature, visual art, photography, film, multimedia art, performance art, music, and theory—that imagines greater justice and a freer ...
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Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 2018
Afrofuturism combines science fiction and fantasy to reexamine how the future is currently imagined, and to reconstruct futures thinking with a deeper insight into the black experience, especially ...
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Afrofuturism combines science fiction and fantasy to reexamine how the future is currently imagined, and to reconstruct futures thinking with a deeper insight into the black experience, especially ...
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Afrocentricity in AfroFuturism
2023In the twenty-first century, AfroFuturism—a historical and philosophical concept of the future imagined through a Black cultural lens-has been interpreted through a myriad of writers, artists, scientists, and other visionary creatives. In this book, the editor curates a collection of interdisciplinary essays that critiques existing scholarship on Black
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Science Fiction Film & Television, 2019
© Liverpool University Press. This article is concerned with questions of history, memory and meaning, and with the construction of Afrofuturism as both an archive and a living tradition. It will begin by outlining the origins of the term, and consider how its naming and initial explication in a popular article by Mark Sinker, interviews by Mark Dery ...
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© Liverpool University Press. This article is concerned with questions of history, memory and meaning, and with the construction of Afrofuturism as both an archive and a living tradition. It will begin by outlining the origins of the term, and consider how its naming and initial explication in a popular article by Mark Sinker, interviews by Mark Dery ...
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Janelle Monáe's Queer Afrofuturism
2022Singer. Dancer. Movie star. Activist. Queer icon. Afrofuturist. Working class heroine. Time traveler. Prophet. Feminist. Android. Dirty Computer. Janelle Monáe is all these things and more, making her one of the most fascinating artists to emerge in the twenty-first century.
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Revista de Estudios Hispánicos
Abstract: Afrofuturism is understood as encompassing critical, narratival, aesthetic, and activist practices that, in the words of Ytasha Womak, "redefine culture and notions of blackness for today and the future." While the Caribbean might seem a natural site for Afrofuturist cultural exploration, until recently, few works of Hispanophone Caribbean ...
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Abstract: Afrofuturism is understood as encompassing critical, narratival, aesthetic, and activist practices that, in the words of Ytasha Womak, "redefine culture and notions of blackness for today and the future." While the Caribbean might seem a natural site for Afrofuturist cultural exploration, until recently, few works of Hispanophone Caribbean ...
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