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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Afrofuturism"”.
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A comparative analysis of Afrofuturism, magical realism and African mythology in Namwali serpell's The old drift and Marlon Jame's Black leopard red wolf: An afrocentric perspective
Afrofuturism, Magical Realism and African Mythology are genres in literary fiction that can be used by authors and writers to explore difficult themes, complex characters, speculative settings and experimental plot points. While studies of these genres in literature exist, there has not been …
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Creating New Suns: Early Examples of Afrofuturist Literature
… Text </em>edited by Dr. Alondra Nelson, Afrofuturism has become a serious focus for academic inquiry. For people familiar with the term, Afrofuturism is presented as a movement borne of our contemporary moment. However, this dissertation explores the ways in which Afrofuturism is actually …
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WAKANDA FOREVER: AN AFROCENTRIC ANALYSIS OF THE FILM BLACK PANTHER
… its release, Black Panther became a symbol of Afrofuturism and how the Black imagination could redefine Blackness and one's interpretation of Black People. Many asserted that African Americans had no "Wakanda" to call their own, but it was merely a fictional land from a comic book. This …
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Reshaping Black Brilliance: Towards the Development of a Pan-Afrikan Pedagogy
… to investigate the expansive possibilities of Afrofuturism as a methodology for the production of a Pan-Afrikan pedagogy, examining the power of the imagination through Octavia E. Butler’s short story The Book of Martha . Afrofuturism as a methodology allows for expansive forms of epistemology …
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Astral Projections. Examining Arts-Based Pedagogy (ABP), Afrofuturism (AfF), and Speculative Design (SpD) as methods to process (Dis)connections and Connections between pedagogical practices utilized at Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs) and Collegiate Black Men (CBM).
… study was to examine arts-based pedagogy (ABP), Afrofuturism (AfF), and speculative design (SpD) as tools that utilize imaginative solutions, cultural inclusivity, and arts-based teaching methods to process (dis)connections and connections between pedagogical practices utilized at predominantly …
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The memory of mythmaking: Transgenerational trauma and disability as a collective experience in Afrofuturist storytelling
… particularly within Black speculative fiction, Afrofuturism, and Africanfuturism. Through the lenses of critical race theory, trauma theory, disability studies, and feminist theory, I will closely analyze how myth functions across five Black speculative fiction novels. I argue that disability …
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The impossible paradigm: an approach to producing knowledge
… (Marx 1887). Through critical pedagogy and Afrofuturism, I analyse the pedagogical practices of the RhodesMustFall (RMF) movement and the Medu Art Ensemble.
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Excavating Radical Futures: Puppets, Robots, And The Fight For Technology
… to puppetry, and to feminist science fiction and Afrofuturism, to offer possibilities for the future and directions for new work.
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Justice-Centered Mentorship in Science Teacher Education: Black Men Decolonizing Science Teaching
… Four conclusions emerged from these findings: Afrofuturism functioned as both an analytic lens and a data source; Border crossing between dominant Western science and Black epistemologies was central to Malcolm’s Black man science teacher identity development; Research operated as both an …
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Re-collective Revolution: A Reclamation of Black Self-Subsistent Economic Tradition
… and practice. Inspired and instructed by afrofuturism, emergent strategy and pleasure activism, this paper crescendos by engaging with these Black feministprovided frameworks through a communally-minded collectively self-reflexive dialogue addressing the plausibility of, reticence towards, …
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Towards Dark Fecundity - Reimagining Black futures through visual arts practice, science fiction and Greek mythology
… lens whilst critically engaging with Afrofuturism and a range of expansive Global Majority futurities developed by artists and thinkers, particularly those of the Black Atlantic (Gilroy, 1993.) Towards Dark Fecundity centres the work of writer Octavia Butler as a frame through which to …
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Reparative Preservation through Immersive 3D Documentation: Cultural Memory, Spatial Justice, and Gullah Geechee Futures on Daufuskie Island
… Counterpublic, Spatial Justice, Oral History, Afrofuturism, Digital Public, Digital/ Web Archive, Cultural Stewardship, Ethical Design, Participatory Design, Underground Rail Road, Return
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The Cleanse
The Cleanse is a novel that takes place deep in the Appalachians of the U.S. South—a queer woman named Nola finds herself at the forefront of a racial struggle for survival amidst a crumbling nation. One century after a Black genocide of the 2040's, Nola lives in a maroon community named Omega, …
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Walking the Tightrope: Selfhood and Speculative Fiction in Janelle Monáe’s The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe’s multi-part, multi-media work Metropolis can be read as a speculative fiction text. In my work, I examine the ways in which Monáe uses the structure of her second album The ArchAndroid and the music, lyrics, and dance of her video "Tightrope" to contribute to her underlying …
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Queering the family as an act of resistance, transformation, and hope in Indigenous futurist, Afrofuturist, and New Wave feminist science fiction
This thesis examines queer representations of the family in feminist, Afrofuturist, and Indigenous futurist science fiction (sf), focusing on how authors kept to the margins of the genre—women, Black, and Indigenous authors—use sf to challenge heteronormative family ideology. Although science …
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Zombified and Traumatized: Healing in Black Women's Zombie Literature
Black women writers construct literary experiences that reflect the systems of oppression that define their American experience within the horror genre. Through their explorations of race relations in an imaginative and boundless sphere, they provide a portrayal of reality that transcends time. …
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Black Cyborgs: Blackness Narratives in Technology, Speculative Fiction, and Digital Cultures
This project draws from the deep well of Black science fiction, original interviews with Black science fiction authors, and popular media case studies and analysis to generate new discourses about Black people and technology. Exploring the ways Black people have taken up both science fiction and …