Introduction to Afrofuturism : a mixtape in Black literature & arts /
DuEwa M. Frazier.
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
- 1 online resource (ix, 300 pages)
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.
"This volume delivers a fresh and contemporary introduction to Afrofuturism, discussing key themes, understandings, and interdisciplinary topics across multiple genres in Black Literature, film, and music. From its origins to the present, this critical volume features scholarly works, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction and analyzes the contributions of notable Afrofuturists such as Octavia Bulter, Sun Ra, N.K. Jemisin, Janelle Monáe, Nnedi Okorafor, Saul Williams, Prince, and more. The volume highlights the impact of films such as Black Panther, Woman King, and They Cloned Tyrone, and covers a variety of essential topics giving students a comprehensive view of the legacy of storytelling and the tradition of "remixing" in Black literature and arts. This volume makes connections across academic subject areas and is an engaging reader for pop culture and media film studies, women's, gender, and sexuality studies, Black and Africana studies, hip-hop studies, creative writing, and composition and rhetoric"--