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"The Black Speculative Arts Movement: Black Futurity, Art+Design is a 21st century statement on the intersection of the future of African people with art, culture, technology, and politics. This collection enters the global debate on the emerging field of Afrofuturism studies with an international array of scholars and artists contributing to the discussion of Black futurity in the 21st century. The contributors analyze and respond to the invisibility or mischaracterization of Black people in the popular imagination, in science fiction, and in philosophies of history."-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Foreword: Twenty-five years in a 500-year-long song / Sheree Renée Thomas
• Introduction: The year of the panther and Afrofuturity / Reynaldo Anderson and Clinton Fluker
• Part I. Theory and extra-planetary reason. At the end of "Dasein": an Afro-German voyage into the future / Natasha A. Kelly
• Avant-gardes, Afrofuturism, and philosophical readings of rhythm / Iain Campbell
• Working on the other side of time: an interview with Rasheedah Phillips / Reynaldo Anderson
• We speak, we make, we tinker: Afrofuturism as applied digital humanities / Toniesha L. Taylor
• Forms of future/past: Black Kirby Afrofuturism and the visual technologies of resistance / John Jennings and Clinton R. Fluker
• Part II. Coding utopia and dystopia. "Everything is real. It's just not as you see it": imagination, utopia, and Afrofuturist feminism in Octavia E. Butler's "The book of Martha" / Susana M. Morris
• African futurist themes and fantasy in modern African speculative fiction / Dike Okoro
• B[l]ack to the future: futurism and blackness in Zone one / Souleymane Ba
• Dragons, vescells, and writing Afro-Latino futures: an interview with Enrique Carrion / Stacey Robinson
• "The electric impulse:" the Legba circuit in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man / Sherese Francis
• Part III. Blackness and planetary praxis. Ashes to ashes: the second life of Kiluanji Kia Henda's Afrofuturist critique / Dariel Cobb
• Metropolis 2.0: Janelle Monáe's recycling of Fritz Lang / Erik Steinskog
• Designing love: reimagining technology and intimacy / Ebony A. Utley
• Performing black imagination: the critical embodiment of transfuturism / Amber Johnson
• Fabulous camps of the black fantastic: Sylvester James, queer Afrofuturism, and black vernacular becomings / tobias c. van Veen and Reynaldo Anderson
• Part IV. Images on the other side of time. Funky images on the other side of time / Wriply Marie Bennet, Tim Fielder, John Jennings, Jessi Jumanji, Amber Johnson, Sheeba Maya, Stacey Robinson, and Quentin VerCetty.

Contributors:

Anderson, Reynaldo, 1964- , editor, contributor

Fluker, Clinton R. , editor, contributor

Thomas, Sheree R. , writer of foreword

Bâ, Souleymane , contributor

Bennet, Wriply Marie , contributor

Campbell, Iain , contributor

Carrion, Enrique , contributor

Cobb, Dariel , contributor

Fielder, Tim , contributor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Black speculative arts movement (Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019] — ISBN 9781498510530; OCLC Number 1114428386)

Subjects:

Afrofuturism

African American art — Themes, motives

Art, American — 20th century — Themes, motives

Futurism (Art) — United States

1900-1999

African American art

Themes, motives

Art, American

Futurism (Art)

United States

General Notes:

Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 268 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

N6538.N5 B533 2019eb

ISBNs:

149851054X (electronic bk.)
9781498510547 (electronic bk.)
1498510531 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9781498510530 (hardcover) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2021763556

OCLC Numbers:

1224368726