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Afrofuturism


  • Here are entered works on literature, music, and visual arts featuring futuristic or science fiction themes that explore African-American experience, history, and culture. Works on science fiction centered explicitly on the African continent and Africans are entered under [Africanfuturism.]
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    • found: Work cat.: 2013025755: Womack, Ytasha L. Afrofuturism : the world of black sci-fi and fantasy culture, 2013.
    • found: 2015035409: Afrofuturism 2.0 : the rise of astro-blackness, 2016.
    • found: Steinskog, Erik (Musicologist). Afrofuturism and black sound studies : culture, technology, and things to come, 2018.
    • found: English Oxford Dictionary, viewed online July 13 2018("Afrofuturism: A movement in literature, music, art, etc., featuring futuristic or science fiction themes which incorporate elements of black history and culture.")
    • found: Tate Museum WWW site, Jan. 9, 2019:(Afrofuturism: a cultural aesthetic that combines science-fiction, history and fantasy to explore the African-American experience and aims to connect those from the black diaspora with their forgotten African ancestry; The term afrofuturism has its origins in African-American science fiction; today it is generally used to refer to literature, music, and visual art that explores the African-American experience and in particular the role of slavery in that experience)
    • found: Africa and the Americas: culture, politics, and history, 2008:Afrofuturism (Afrofuturism is an African American literary and artistic movement addressing the transatlantic issues of displacement, home, and belonging. In speculative fiction, some of the major recurring themes have included alien intrusion and subjugation, forced displacement, and the quest to return to the native land and to regain a lost sense of cultural location. All of these themes would have a very natural appeal to African American writers and readers, and yet until the last few decades of the twentieth century, there was little African American visibility in the genres of science fiction and science fantasy.)
    • found: Nnedi's Wahala Zone Blog, Oct. 19, 2019, viewed Sept. 11, 2023(Africanfuturism is similar to 'Afrofuturism' in the way that blacks on the continent and in the Black Diaspora are all connected by blood, spirit, history and future. The difference is that Africanfuturism is specifically and more directly rooted in African culture, history, mythology and point-of view as it then branches into the Black Diaspora, and it does not privilege or center the West. Africanfuturism is concerned with visions of the future, is interested in technology, leaves the earth, skews optimistic, is centered on and predominantly written by people of African descent (black people) and it is rooted first and foremost in Africa. Africanfuturism does not have to extend beyond the continent of Africa, though often it does. Its default is non-western; its default/center is African. Africanfuturism is a sub-category of science fiction. Africanfuturism does not include fantasy unless that fantasy is set in the future or involves technology or space travel, etc...which would make such a narrative more science fiction than fantasy. Africanfuturism (being African-based) will tend to naturally have mystical elements (drawn or grown from actual African cultural beliefs/worldviews, not something merely made up). Lastly, Africanfuturism is spelled as one word (not two) and the "f" is not capitalized.) - http://nnedi.blogspot.com/
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    • Here are entered works on literature, music, and visual arts featuring futuristic or science fiction themes that explore African-American experience, history, and culture. Works on science fiction centered explicitly on the African continent and Africans are entered under [Africanfuturism.]
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    • 2018-11-13: new
    • 2024-04-23: revised
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