Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction

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Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction

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In this vibrant and approachable book, award-winning writers of black speculative fiction bring together excerpts from their work and creative reflections on futurisms with original essays.

Features an introduction by Suyi Okungbowa.

Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction showcases creative-critical essays that negotiate genre bending and black speculative fiction with writerly practice. As Afrodecendant peoples with lived experience from the continent, award-winning authors use their intrinsic voices in critical conversations on Afrofuturism and Afro-centered futurisms. By engaging with difference, they present a new kind of African study that is an evaluative gaze at African history, African spirituality, Afrosurrealism, "becoming," black radical imagination, cultural identity, decolonizing queerness, myths, linguistic cosmologies, and more.

Contributing authors – Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga, Cheryl S. Ntumy, Dilman Dila, Eugen Bacon, Nerine Dorman, Nuzo Onoh, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Stephen Embleton, Suyi Okungbowa, Tobi Ogundiran and Xan van Rooyen – offer boldly hybrid chapters (both creative and scholarly) that interface Afrocentric artefacts and exegesis. Through ethnographic reflections and intense scrutinies of African fiction, these writers contribute open and diverse reflections of Afro-centered futurisms.

The authors in Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction feature in major genre and literary awards, including the Bram Stoker, World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Locus, Ignyte, Nommo, Philip K. Dick, Shirley Jackson and Otherwise Awards, among others. They are also intrinsic partners in a vital conversation on the rise of black speculative fiction that explores diversity and social (in)justice, charting poignant stories with black hero/ines who remake their worlds in color zones of their own image.

Table of Contents

Preface
The Structure of This Book

Chapter 1. On Afrocentric Futurisms–The Case for an Inclusive Expression
Suyi Okungbowa, Nigeria/Canada
Chapter 2. Cosmologies and Languages Building Africanfuturism
Stephen Embleton, South Africa/UK
Chapter 3. An Afrofuturistic Dystopia and the Afro-irreal
Eugen Bacon, Tanzania/Australia
Chapter 4. The power of African Spirituality in Africanfuturism
Nuzo Onoh, Nigeria/UK
Chapter 5. Black Futurisms vs. Systems of Domination
Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Kenya
Chapter 6. Faith and Fantasy–Afrofuturist and Africanfuturist Spirituality
Cheryl S. Ntumy, Ghana
Chapter 7. Queer Imaginings in Africanfuturism Inspired by African History
Xan van Rooyen, South Africa/Finland
Chapter 8. Afrofuturism and Exploring Cultural Identity as a Process of Becoming
Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga, Rwanda/Australia
Chapter 9. Fabulist Imaginings in Tales of the Dark and Fantastic
Tobi Ogundiran, Nigeria/USA
Chapter 10. A Vision for Direct Democracy in Yat Madit
Dilman Dila, Uganda
Chapter 11. A Gaze at Post-Colonial Themes That Re-Envision Africa
Nerine Dorman, South Africa
Chapter 12. Denouement: Autoethnography–the Self-As-Research
Eugen Bacon, Tanzania/Australia

Acknowledgements
Index

Product details

Published Nov 14 2024
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 240
ISBN 9798765114674
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Series Black Literary and Cultural Expressions
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Eugen Bacon

Eugen Bacon MA, MSc, PhD is an African Australian…

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