Plan(t)ing Afrofuturism

ISBN-13: 9783960420767 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str.

Shirin Assa

Opis

Wanuri Kahius "Pumzi" ist ein afrofuturistischer Film, der die Konsequenzen von Klimawandel und durch ihn verursachten Krieg und thematisiert. "Pumzi" verstört, um zu träumen. Erinnerung wird dabei zum Lebenselixier der Zukunft. Dieser Band widmet sich dem Streben, von Pumzi und seiner Protagonistin Asha zu lernen. Solidarität und Widerstand inmitten einer dystopischen Technodiktatur p(f)lan(z)en neue Zukünfte, über Spezien und Zeiten hinweg.

O autorze

Assa, Shirin
Shirin Assa has been engaged with literary study of diasporic identities/Id escapes in the field of Future, Postcolonial Studies and Intersectonality. Currently holding a Ph.D position in the English and American Literature department at University of Bayreuth, she is also the co-coordinator of Gender, Queer, Intersectionality and Diversity network at UBT. Assa pursues a comparative study on "MENA women in Diaspora; Poetics of Intersectional Resistance versus Geometry of Appropriation." She is also a member of steering committee for Future Migration Network for Cultural Diversity. Arndt, Susan
Susan Arndt is Professor of English Literatures at Bayreuth University. Her work is dedicated to Shakespeare and African (Diasporic) Literatures, with a theoretical focus on Intersectionality, Postcolonial Theories and Posthumanism. She is the author of Negotiating Whiteness in British Fiction (2020), Sexismus. Wissen Macht Geschichte (2020), Rassismus (2012), The Dynamics of African Feminism (2002) und African Women's Literature, Orature and Intertextuality. Igbo Oral Narratives as Nigerian Women Writers' Models and Objects of Writing Back (1998).