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ALT 39 - Speculative & Science Fiction (Hardcover)
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ALT 39 - Speculative & Science Fiction (Hardcover)
Series: African Literature Today
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Explores the ways in which African writers have approached
speculative fiction through in-depth articles on the use of
language, terminology and the genealogy of the works. Over the past
two decades, there has been a resurgence in the writing of African
and African diaspora speculative and science fiction writing.
Recent discussions around the "rise of science-fiction and fantasy"
in Africa have led to a push-back, in which writers and scholars
have suggested that science fiction and fantasy is not a new
phenomenon in African literature, but that the deep past of the
African world and its complex and mysterious foundations still
register in burgeoning modern literary productions. Such influences
can be seen in early twentieth-century writers such as D.O.
Fagunwa's classic novel (1938) Ogboji Ode ninu Igbo Irunmale (The
Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga), the mythopoeia of
Elechi Amadi's The Concubine (1966) as well as the dystopian
writing of Buchi Emecheta in The Rape of Shavi (1983). This volume
shows this long tradition of speculative literature in examining
African classics such as Kojo Laing's Woman of the Aeroplanes
(1988) and the oeuvre of Ngugi wa Thiong'o. The volume also
critically examines modern African texts from writers including
Nnedi Okorafor, Namwali Serpell and Masande Ntshanga, as well as
critically looking at the terms 'Afrofuturism' and
'Africanfuturism' vis-a-vis their particular cultural aesthetics
and suitability in describing tradition rooted African speculative
arts. This volume also includes a Literary Supplement. Guest
Editors: LOUISA UCHUM EGBUNIKE (Associate Professor in African and
Caribbean Literature, Durham University) and CHIMALUM NWANKWO
(Writer-in-Residence, Department of English and Literary Studies,
Veritas University, Abuja, Nigeria). Series Editor: Ernest N.
Emenyonu (Professor of Africana Studies at the University of
Michigan-Flint) Reviews Editor: Obi Nwakanma (Fellow, Department of
English University of Central Florida).
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