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Afrofuturisms - Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions (Hardcover)
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Afrofuturisms - Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions (Hardcover)
Series: Research in International Studies, Africa Series
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An exploration of Francophone African literary imaginations and
expressions through the lens of Afrofuturism Generally attributed
to the Western imagination, science fiction is a literary genre
that has expressed projected technological progress since the
Industrial Revolution. However, certain fantastical elements in
African literary expressions lend themselves to science fiction
interpretations, both utopian and dystopian. When the concept of
science is divorced from its Western, rationalist, materialist,
positivist underpinnings, science fiction represents a broad
imaginative space that supersedes the limits of this world. Whether
it be on the moon, under the sea, or elsewhere within the
imaginative universe, Afrofuturist readings of select films,
novels, short stories, plays, and poems reveal a similarly
emancipatory African future that is firmly rooted in its own
cultural mythologies, cosmologies, and philosophies. Isaac Joslin
identifies the contours and modalities of a speculative, futurist
science fiction rooted in the sociocultural and geopolitical
context of continental African imaginaries. Constructing an arc
that begins with gender identity and cultural plurality as the
bases for an inherently multicultural society, this project traces
the essential role of language and narrativity in processing
traumas that stem from the violence of colonial and neocolonial
interventions in African societies. Joslin then outlines the
influential role of discursive media that construct divisions and
create illusions about societal success, belonging, and exclusion,
while also identifying alternative critical existential mythologies
that promote commonality and social solidarity. The trajectory
proceeds with a critical analysis of the role of education in
affirming collective identity in the era of globalization; the book
also assesses the market-driven violence that undermines efforts to
instill and promote cultural and social autonomy. Last, this work
proposes an egalitarian and ecological ethos of communal engagement
with and respect for the diversity of the human and natural worlds.
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