Introduction to Afrofuturism : a mixtape in Black literature & arts / DuEwa M. Frazier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frazier, DuEwa M., editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Afrofuturism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 300 pages)

Other Title:

Mixtape in Black literature and arts

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.

Biography/History:

DuEwa M. Frazier, EdD, MFA, is a poet, essayist, scholar, digital creator, TEDx and keynote speaker, and Assistant Professor of English, USA. Frazier's research, creative nonfiction, and digital writings focus on hip-hop pedagogy and popular culture, culturally responsive pedagogy, Black women writers, and Black Feminism. She is the editor of Teaching Humanities with Cultural Responsiveness at HBCUs and HSIs (2024). Her poetry has featured in Split This Rock/Blog This Rock, Water Magazine, Tidal Basin Review, Poetry in Performance, and others. She is the author of several published volumes of poetry and children's stories. She has been a writing fellow at the Hurston/Wright Foundation and Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. She holds advanced degrees in Creative Writing, Curriculum and Teaching, and Higher Education Leadership. Frazier earned an MFA in Creative Writing at The New School, USA.

Contents:

Last stop to dine ; Looking for Hurston in a triptych ; Fifty something years of letters laters (my paradoxical absolution of Emmett Till) ; The automatism of reflection on creation and space-a triptych (featuring Alice Coltrane's symphonic aura) / Curtis L. Crisler

I heart music : hip-hop is dead. Long live hip-hop ; I'm a Black man wearing the stars and stripes, what don't I understand? / Zorina Exie Frey

Mason Dixon ; The multiverse of a heart ; A soulful meditation / Ran Walker

Cornbread Othello / Alan King

Poet : on imagining Planet X as the only safe space ; Whispers and rockets / Raina J. Leôn

Afroprophetica : a Hoodoo future / Arthur Rickydoc Flowers, Jr.

Satellites are spinning : notes on a Sun Ra poem / Paul Youngquist

Juice from the mind : Afrofuturism in hip-hop and Black visual culture / Duewa M. Frazier

Young, gifted, and Black : exploring the community building of science and sisterhood in Marvel's Black Panther : Wakanda forever (2022) / Christian M. Hines

Hacking boundaries and subverting systems of oppression in Neptune Frost (2021) / Juliette Goutierre

"Heaven somewhere in the future" : the digital imagination of Prince's Art official age / Douglas Rasmussen

My life in the new wave : on my origins as a Black fabulist / Jeffery Renard Allen

"It's not what I see, but what I see through" : queer Afrofuturism and Afrosurrealism in Neptune Frost (2021) / Jeremy Laughery

Altering normative epistemologies in African speculative fiction : a reading of The woman king (2022) / Olayombo Raji-Oyelade

I'm a witness : surviving dystopia through the sonic memory of Black women in When I get home / Olivia Uzodima Ekeh

In The Afro-future, even Jezebels like 'Yo-Yo' deserve to be saved : an exploration of Black female characters in They cloned Tyrone (2023) / Shernā Ann Phillips

Imag(in)ings Afrofuturistic assemblages : nurturing multispecies entanglement in Nnedi Okorofor's graphic narrative LaGuardia / Anindita Ghosal and Aritra Ghosal

Exploring Afrofuturism as a tool to dismantle hegemony in Octavia Butler's "The evening and the morning and the night" / Flourice W. Richardson

Seeing is believing : an Afrofuturist reading of the visual medium of Duffy and Jennings's graphic novel adaptation of Parable of the sower / Heather Thaxter

Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea (we're going to Mars) : Black women & ancient wisdom / Ayana Hardaway

Demystifying the speculative : an Ifa reading of stigmata / Jada Similton

Live and let live Black feminism and difference / Jasmine H. Wade

Verbal marronage as linguistic resistance in Midnight robber / Keisha Allan

How did I (we) get here? : Speculative time travel and the contested place of technology in Afrofuturistic fictions / Michael Ra-Shon Hall

Mother(ship) intuition : Black women protagonists in Afrofuturism / Victoria Moten

F.A.M : trans-Afrofuturism in Janelle Monae's and Danny Lore's "Nevermind" / AK Wright.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 06, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Introduction to Afrofuturism

ISBN:

9781032662473

1032662476

9781040088241

1040088244

9781040088227

1040088228

Publisher Number:

40032397643

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