Results 61 to 70 of about 1,491 (183)

VOCABULARY FOR AN UNTHINKABLE GRAMMAR: SHARON DODUA OTOO'S SYNCHRONICITY

German Life and Letters, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 51-67, January 2024.
ABSTRACT This article examines the eponymous notion of ‘synchronicity’ in Sharon Dodua Otoo's novella, Synchronicity: the original story. Drawing on Denise Ferreira da Silva's notion of Black Feminist ‘poethics’, I argue that ‘synchronicity’ might serve as a ‘guide’ for the imagination that also expands significant critiques of (post)‐Enlightenment ...
Stephanie Galasso
wiley   +1 more source

Wakanda as a Conditional African Utopia: Analysing Black Panther’s Excursion (in)to Neoliberal Intergalactic Futures

Africanías
Black Panther’s entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe marks a significant moment in mainstream speculative fiction, offering a promising representation of blackness and Africanism while challenging Western cultural schemata.
Almudena Machado-Jiménez
doaj   +1 more source

African Afro-futurism: Allegories and Speculations

Current Musicology, 2017
In his seminal text, More Brilliant Than The Sun, Kodwo Eshun remarks upon a general tension within contemporary African-American music: a tension between the “Soulful” and the “Postsoul.” While acknowledging that the two terms are always simultaneously ...
Gavin Steingo
doaj   +1 more source

BETWEEN THE ORBITS: TRANSLATING SHARON DODUA OTOO'S ADAS RAUM

German Life and Letters, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 146-162, January 2024.
ABSTRACT This paper examines theoretical and practical questions involved in the translation of Sharon Dodua Otoo's transnational and polyphonic novel Adas Raum. Using translation theory and the Benjaminian notion of a translation's ‘Fortleben’, I build on my concept of ‘conversive reading’, as well as on extensive real‐time collaboration with Otoo and
Jon Cho‐Polizzi
wiley   +1 more source

Afrofuturism 2.0 : The Rise of Astro-Blackness

, 2016
"The ideas and practices related to afrofuturism have existed for most of the 20th century, especially in the North American-African diaspora community.
Gaskins, Nettrice R., Guthrie, Ricardo, Van Veen, Tobias C., Lohr, Jeff, Barber, Tiffany E., DeIuliis, David, McLeod, Ken, Brooks, Lonny Avi, Anderson, Reynaldo, Gipson, Grace, Jones, Charles E., Whitted, Qiana, Rollins, Andrew, Jones, Esther   +13 more
core   +1 more source

Scars to Stars: Redefining Black Womanhood in Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred through Afrofuturism

ILN Journal: Indian Literary Narratives
This article examines the redefinition of Black womanhood in Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred from an Afrofuturist perspective, through the concepts of trauma, memory, survival, resistance, and identity. Building on the work of Afrofuturist scholars including
Bharathidasan J, Dr J. Amalaveenus
doaj   +1 more source

Space fantasy: Nagaoka Shusei's contributions to Afrofuturist visual culture

The Journal of American Culture, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 3-22, March 2025.
Nathan Hesselink
wiley   +1 more source

History and Its Others in Afrofuturism

Iperstoria, 2016
Afrofuturist fiction proceeds from the position of an enslaved, silenced, subaltern Other within the history of the US. It responds by constructing various strategic discontinuities with historical time, including anachronism, apocalypse, and utopia ...
John Rieder, Cristina Bacchilega
doaj   +1 more source

Seeds of Change

Atlantis
The rapid advancement of human knowledge and technology has positioned us to realize a new colonialism in outer space. Those with a concern for the future cannot afford to refuse outer space altogether, but must actively devise alternatives to the ...
Nevandria Page
doaj  

Everyday Black Futurity in Popular Culture

Lateral
Black popular culture draws on everyday Black experiences to create ideas of futurity. There are well known examples of Afrofuturism, such as the Black Panther films, as well as the music of George Clinton, Sun Ra, Janelle Monáe, and Erykah Badu, which ...
RaShelle R. Peck
doaj   +1 more source