Futurism and the African Imagination: Literature and Other Arts

ISBN-13: 9781032015682 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 242 str.

Dike Okoro

Opis

This book investigates how African authors and artists have explored themes of the future and technology within their works. Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book will be an important resource for researchers across the fields of African literature, philosophy, culture and politics.

Spis treści

Part I: Origins/Present Manifestations in Literature 1. Futuristic Themes and Science Fiction in Modern African Literature 2. Objects Want to Have a Purpose: Animate Materiality, Space, and Identity in African Women Science Fiction 3. A Narrative of Resistance in the Face of Stasis 4. Elechi Amadi: The Paradox of a Great Teacher who Objects to Teaching 5. The Poet as Philosopher 6. The Metaphor of Change in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman 7. The Art of Writing and the Writer’s World: An Interview with Lauren Beukes 8. Futuristic Themes in Modern African Poetry Part II: Further Manifestations: Theories, Literature and Performance 9. Mazisi Kunene and the New African Movement 10. The Greatness of Mazisi Kunene and the Influence of Zulu Cosmology 11. Visual Dissidence and Postcolonial Tunisian Film 12. My Writing, My Influences! A Niger Delta Writer’s Reflection on Arts, Politics and Society 13. African Fiction and the Prison Experience: An Interview with Benjamin Kwakye 14. Afrobeat Poetry and the African Imagination 15. The Story of Akorshi Litong Mystical Dance: A Bette-Bendi Cultural Production 16. A Conversation between Patricia Jabbeh Wesley and Dike Okoro Part III: Inferences in Other Arts 17. A Conversation with Bruce Onobrakeya

O autorze

Dike Okoro is Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Humanities Department at Harris Stowe State University, USA. He is the author of Lupenga Mphande; Ecocritical Poet/Political Activist (2021). Okoro is a Senior Research Fellow at Ken Saro-Wiwa Foundation.