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

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

Pirker, Eva Ulrike
Rahn, Judith

Hardcover

General ReferenceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032414987
ISBN13: 9781032414980
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 28 2023
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The future is a contested terrain and one that has in recent years been debated, theorized and imaginatively constructed with an unprecedented, albeit unsurprising, sense of urgency. The recent Afrofuturist imaginary is an increasingly noticeable field in these debates and manifestations, requesting as it does the envisioning of a future through an artistic, scientific and technological African or Black lens. Afrofuturism is not a new term, but it seems to have broadened and developed in different directions. The recent Afrofuturist engagements, which oscillate between narratives of empowerment and tech-wise superheroes on the one hand and dystopian agendas on the other, raise questions about earlier futurist accounts, about historical Black visions of the future that precede the establishment even of the term Afrofuturism. This volume 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 (e.g., Pan-Africanism, debates about Civil Rights, decolonial debates and transcultural modernisms), as well as through explorations of Afrofuturist approaches in the 21st century across media cultures and in a transcultural perspective. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Critical Studies in Media Communication.

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