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The Comic at the Crossroads: The Semiotics of ‘Voodoo Storytelling’ in The Hole: Consumer Culture Vol. 1

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 2019
This article focuses on the use of religious semiology in the 2008 Black graphic novel The Hole: Consumer Culture Vol. 1 by Damian Duffy and John Jennings.
Lisa Kottas, Martin Schwarzenbacher
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BLACKNESS AND DIS/ABILITY IN THE AFROFUTURIST CHRISTMAS NOVELLA SYNCHRONICITY (2015) BY SHARON DODUA OTOO*

German Life and Letters, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 33-50, January 2024.
ABSTRACT Charlie, the main character in Sharon Dodua Otoo's Afrofuturist Christmas novella Synchronicity, is a Black single mother of Ghanaian heritage working as a graphic designer in Berlin who has spent her whole life feeling the constraints of her ancestral traditions.
joseph kebe‐nguema
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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
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Afrofuturist Worlds: The Diseased Colonial Imagination and Christian Hope

Journal of Moral Theology
This article argues that the cultural tradition of Afrofuturism offers one potential solution to the diseased Christian colonial imagination diagnosed in the work of Willie James Jennings.
Adam Beyt
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Liberation via Reliving the Suffering: A Study of August Wilson’s Monologues

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities
The articulation of counter-discourse has long served as a central mechanism for expressing resistance, resilience, and the reclamation of histories centered on marginalized communities.
Sumita, Mayur Chhikara
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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
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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
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Science Fiction Studies 102. Volume 34, Part 2: Special 'Afrofuturism' issue

, 2007
Mark Bould and Rone Shavers edited this special issue of the journal Fiction Studies, devoted to afrofuturism and black ...
Shavers, Rone, Bould, Mark
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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
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August Wilson, Afrofuturism, & Gem of the Ocean

Open Cultural Studies, 2018
August Wilson's Century Cycle is as much a theatrical experiment of black cultural history and sociology as it is one of storytelling. Though often considered a realist playwright, Wilson walks beyond the realist landscape into speculative and imagined ...
Boynton Anthony Dwayne
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