Search results for "Afrofuturism"
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Afrofuturisme : une (re)naissance littéraire sud-africaine ?
2022
Ghosts from the Abyss. The imagination of new worlds in the sea-narratives of Afrofuturism
2022
This contribution aims to investigate a different ghostscape, shaped by the turbulent materiality of the sea: the abyss. A space of trauma and simultaneously of becoming, it is populated by spectral objects, traces, fragments, and, above all, ghosts. Looking into the abyss through the turbulent materiality of the sea (where the turbulence recalls Haraway’s trouble and the materiality a livingness of the world in which “matter comes to matter”), sea-related ghosts from the Black Atlantic to the Black Mediterranean emerge as absences-presences that matter. The emersion of sea-related new worlds is one of the main topics of Afrofuturism narratives: from the Drexciya world to the Novella The De…
Recensione Femminismi futuri
2020
Book Review: Future Feminisms: Theories | Poetics | Fabulations, edited by Lidia Curti, Iacobelli Editore, 2019. Feminisms Future is a text that offers a cartography of contemporary feminist discourses projected into the future, which critically question themselves by tracing possible trajectories.
Nota introduttiva. Dagli "idoli di legna dei renani" all'afrofuturismo
2021
Una introduzione alla sezione "Cultural Studies" del volume
Dendrolatrie della scia. Corpi arborei e semi della memoria
2021
Invisibilizzazione, disumanizzazione, dolore del trauma, naufragio: la scia si produce e si riproduce in mare, in un attraversamento in cui il Mediterraneo diviene eco dell’Atlantico e viceversa. Centrale per questo riecheggiare è la memoria. La memoria di un passato che non è mai passato, che torna a fratturare il presente e continua a riprodursi in un tempo circolare della schiavitù, inteso come futuro creato da essa (Hartman 2007). E la creazione del futuro passa per la coltivazione dei semi della memoria: semi in movimento, che creano così una trama filiforme che unisce l’Atlantico Nero al Mediterraneo Nero. Depositari del passato e base per la creazione del futuro, i semi della memoria…
„Comparing“ American and South African literatures (through Afrofuturism): methodology and challenges (online seminar)
2023
My original thesis project was ‘Representations of monstrosity in afrofuturist American and South African literature’, and it was meant as a follow up to my master’s thesis which consisted in analyzing monstrosity in short story collections by an African American and a South African author: Friday Black (Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, 2018) and Intruders (Mohale Mashigo, 2018). I had used afrofuturism not as my main focus then, but as a subchapter in my work, When I started working on my thesis project, I took the term ‘afrofuturism’ for granted when applied to South African works, but the texts I have read and the (South African) encounters I have had have led me to rethink my work and my appro…
Friday Black et Intruders : lecture croisée au prisme de l'afrofuturisme
2022
This article contrasts “The Finkelstein 5” and “Zimmer Land”, from Nana Kwame Adjei Brenyah’s short story collection Friday Black (2018) with the “Untitled” series from Mohale Mashigo’s Intruders (2018), using Mark Dery’s definition of Afrofuturism as a reading grid and a starting point. While both collections draw on the codes of science fiction and dystopia to portray racialized characters in futuristic settings to examine their relation to technology and their place in fictional ‘future’ societies, they take on different approaches. The article concludes that Adjei-Brenyah’s writing, in Friday Black, leans towards what could be termed ‘Afropresentism’ based on François Hartog’s definitio…