Afrofuturism: A Special Issue of Social Text (Volume 20)
Afrofuturism: A Special Issue of Social Text (Volume 20)

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Afrofuturism: A Special Issue of Social Text (Volume 20)

Book: Paperback 03 - 06 - 2002

Product ID: 4419068

Condition: New
Publisher : Duke University Press Books

Language : English

Paperback : 156 Pages

ISBN-10 : 0822365456

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Product Description Challenging mainstream technocultural assumptions of a raceless future, AFROFUTURISM explores culturally distinct approaches to technology. This special issue addresses the intersection between African diasporic culture and technology through literature, poetry, science fiction and speculative fiction, music, visual art, and the Internet and maintains that racial identity fundamentally influences technocultural practices. The collection includes a reflection on the ideologies of race created by cultural critics in their analyses of change wrought by the information age; an interview with Nalo Hopkinson, the award-winning novelist and author of speculative fiction novels Midnight Robber and Brown Girl in the Ring, who fuses futuristic thinking with Caribbean traditions; an essay on how contemporary R&B music presents African American reflections on the technologies of everyday life; and an article examining early interventions by the black community to carve out a distinct niche in cyberspace. Contributors. Ron Eglash, Anna Everett, Tana Hargest, Nalo Hopkinson, Tracie Morris, Alondra Nelson, Kalí Tal, Fatimah Tuggar, Alexander G. Weheliye Alondra Nelson is a Ph.D. candidate in the American Studies Program at New York University and the Ann Plato Fellow at Trinity College. About the Author Alondra Nelson is a Ph.D. candidate in the American Studies Program at New York University and the Ann Plato Fellow at Trinity College.

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