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The black speculative arts movement : black futurity, art+design / edited by Reynaldo Anderson and Clinton R. Fluker ; foreword by Sheree Renée Thomas.

Van Pelt Library CB235 .B533 2019
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Anderson, Reynaldo, 1964- editor.
Fluker, Clinton R., editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Afrofuturism.
African American art--Themes, motives.
African American art.
Art, American--20th century--Themes, motives.
Art, American.
Futurism (Art)--United States.
Futurism (Art).
Art, American--Themes, motives.
Themes, motives.
United States.
Physical Description:
xiii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019]
Summary:
"The Black Speculative Arts Movement: Black Futurity, Art+Design is a 21st century statement on the intersection of the future of African people with art, culture, technology, and politics. This collection enters the global debate on the emerging field of Afrofuturism studies with an international array of scholars and artists contributing to the discussion of Black futurity in the 21st century. The contributors analyze and respond to the invisibility or mischaracterization of Black people in the popular imagination, in science fiction, and in philosophies of history." -- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
25 Years in a 500 year long song / Sheree Renee Thomas
The year of the panther / Reynaldo Anderson and Clinton Fluker
Theory and extra-planetary reason. At the end of “Dasein”: An Afro-German voyage into the future / Natasha A. Kelly
Avant-gardes, afrofuturism, and philosophical readings of rhythm / Iain Campbell
Working on the other side of time: an interview with Rasheedah Phillips / Reynaldo Anderson
We speak, we make, we tinker: afrofuturism as applied digital humanities / Toniesha L. Taylor
Forms of future/past: Black Kirby afrofuturism and the visual technologies of resistance / John Jennings and Clinton R. Fluker
Coding Utopia and Dystopia. “Everything is real. It's just not as you see it”: Imagination, utopia, and afrofuturist feminism in Octavia E. Butler's “The Book of Martha” / Susana M. Morris
African futurist themes and fantasy in modern African speculative fiction / Dike Okoro
B[l]ack to the future: futurism and blackness in zone one / Souleymane Ba
Dragons, vescells, and writing Afro-Latino futures: An interview with Enrique Carrion / Stacey Robinson
“The Electric Impulse:” The legba circuit in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man / Sherese Francis
Blackness and planetary praxis. Ashes to ashes: the second life of Kiluanji Kia Henda's afrofuturist critique / Dariel Cobb
Metropolis 2.0: Janelle Monáe's recycling of Fritz Lang / Erik Steinskog
Designing love: reimagining technology and intimacy / Ebony A. Utley
Performing black imagination: the critical embodiment of transfuturism / Amber Johnson
Fabulous camps of the black fantastic: Sylvester James, queer afrofuturism, and black vernacular becomings / tobias c. van Veen and Reynaldo Anderson
Images on the other side of time. Funky images on the other side of time / Wriply Marie Bennet, Tim Fielder, John Jennings, Jessi Jumanji, Amber Johnson, Sheeba Maya, Stacey Robinson, and Quentin VerCetty.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781498510530
1498510531
OCLC:
1114428386

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