Afrofuturism's Transcultural Trajectories: Resistant Imaginaries Between Margins and Mainstreams

ISBN-13: 9781032414980 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 108 str.

Pirker, Eva Ulrike

Opis

This book contextualizes Afrofuturism's diverse approaches in the past and present through investigations into overlapping horizons between Afrofuturist agendas and other intellectual and/or artistic movements and through explorations of Afrofuturist approaches in 21st century across media cultures and in a transcultural perspective.

Spis treści

1. Afrofuturist trajectories across time, space and media  Section 1: Trajectories of Alternative Visions on Three Continents  2. “Afrotopia?”: an Afrofuturist examination of Chad Hartigan’s film Morris from America (2016)  3. Reframing the post-apocalypse in Black British film: the dystopian Afrofuturism of Welcome II the Terrordome and Shank  4. Wangari Maathai’s environmental Afrofuturist imaginary in Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi  Section 2: Afrofuturist Soundscapes  5. A question of the sonic: problematizing Afrofuturism and its relation to Black Sound, with a case study of DJ Steloolive’s performance art  6. The cosmic submarine—Yugen Blakrok’s sonar echoes  Section 3: Envisioning Afrofutures in Literature and Film  7. Math and magic: Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti trilogy and its challenge to the dominance of Western science in science fiction  8. Wakanda Africa do you see? Reading Black Panther as a decolonial film through the lens of the Sankofa theory