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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
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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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The role of Afrofuturism in selected contemporary British novels [PDF]

, 2020
Afrofuturismus ist eine nordamerikanische Kulturbewegung, die im Mittelpunkt vieler akademischer Arbeiten auf dem Gebiet der englischsprachigen Literaturwissenschaft steht.
Cerveny, Sarah
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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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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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The \u27-ism\u27 of Self-Worth: Analyzing Afrofuturism [PDF]

, 2019
There are plenty of books that are marketed as Afrofuturism, however, the definition of the genre is constantly changing. In addition, many of the papers in discourse about what Afrofuturism is are done by academics from outside of the community of ...
Mitchell, Zoe
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Atlanta Trap and the Current Directions of Afrofuturism [PDF]

, 2019
Atlanta is the cultural hub of the hip hop industry and home to some of the latest and most exciting examples of contemporary Afrofuturism. As the city's primary musical export, trap generally reads as apolitical; however, modern deployments of ...
Hall, Tyler
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Immagine della crisi / Crisi dell'immagine. Critica all'egemonia culturale del realismo e diritto all'opacità in Hydra Decapita (2011), un film saggio di The Otolith Group

Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary, 2015
This article reflects on the ways in which the relation between crisis and imaginary is articulated in Hydra Decapita, a 2011 essay-film by the British art collective The Otolith Group.
Beatrice Ferrara
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Afrofuturism and decolonisation: using Black Panther as methodology [PDF]

The terms Afrofuturism and decolonisation may both occupy prominent positions in the contemporary moment but they are not often projected into the same conceptual space. While the task of decolonising the curricula at South Africa’s tertiary institutions
Becker, Danielle
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The Black radical imagination: a space of hope and possible futures. [PDF]

Front Neurol, 2023
Hill-Jarrett TG.
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