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The Black Speculative Arts Movement Reynaldo Anderson

The Black Speculative Arts Movement By Reynaldo Anderson

The Black Speculative Arts Movement by Reynaldo Anderson

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This collection contributes to Afrofuturism studies by focusing on the Black creative experience. Contributors analyze philosophies of utopia, art, music, and histories of visual resistance, and they critique noted works by authors and artists like Octavia Butler, Ralph Ellison, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Janelle Monae, and Colson Whitehead.

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The Black Speculative Arts Movement: Black Futurity, Art+Design by Reynaldo Anderson

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.

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This creative and courageous book is the flowering of black imagination and exploration into alternatives to the catastrophic realities of present-day black life. It is part of a great tradition of theory and praxis, thought and action rooted in concrete struggles for black freedom and black joy! As America and much of the world moves toward neo-fascism, Afro-futurism becomes more timely and powerful! -- Cornel West, Harvard University
Reynaldo Anderson and Clinton R. Fluker have continued a dynamic dance with Afrofuturism, bringing together the giants of the field in a single volume. The authors in this well-anchored volume are the best in the field. Each has made an outstanding contribution to Afrofuturism by rushing quickly into the future. I contend that The Black Speculative Arts Movement: Black Futurity, Art+Design by virtue of its comprehensive and authorial nature will become the classic in the field. -- Molefi Kete Asante, professor and chair, Department of Africology, Temple University, author of The History of Africa

About Reynaldo Anderson

Reynaldo Anderson is associate professor of communications and chair of the Humanities Department at Harris-Stowe State University.



Clinton R. Fluker is assistant director of engagement and scholarship at the Atlanta University Center.

Table of Contents

Forward: 25 Years in a 500 Year Long Song

Sheree Renee Thomas



Introduction: The Year of the Panther

Reynaldo Anderson and Clinton Fluker



Part I: Theory and Extra-Planetary Reason



Chapter One: At the End of Dasein: An Afro-German Voyage into the Future

Natasha A. Kelly



Chapter Two: Avant-Gardes, Afrofuturism, and Philosophical Readings of Rhythm

Iain Campbell



Chapter Three: Working on the Other Side of Time: An Interview with Rasheedah Phillips

Reynaldo Anderson



Chapter Four: We Speak, We Make, We Tinker: Afrofuturism as Applied Digital Humanities

Toniesha L. Taylor



Chapter Five: 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



Chapter Six: 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



Chapter Seven: African Futurist Themes and Fantasy in Modern African Speculative Fiction

Dike Okoro



Chapter Eight: B[l]ack to the Future: Futurism and Blackness in Zone One

Souleymane Ba



Chapter Nine: Dragons, Vescells, and Writing Afro-Latino Futures: An Interview with Enrique Carrion

Stacey Robinson



Chapter Ten: The Electric Impulse: The Legba Circuit in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

Sherese Francis





Part III: Blackness and Planetary Praxis



Chapter Eleven: Ashes to Ashes: The Second Life of Kiluanji Kia Henda's Afrofuturist Critique

Dariel Cobb



Chapter Twelve: Metropolis 2.0: Janelle Monae's Recycling of Fritz Lang

Erik Steinskog



Chapter Thirteen: Designing Love: Reimagining Technology and Intimacy

Ebony A. Utley



Chapter Fourteen: Performing Black Imagination: The Critical Embodiment of Transfuturism

Amber Johnson



Chapter Fifteen: 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

Chapter Sixteen: Funky Images on the Other Side of Time: Various Artists

Wriply Marie Bennet, Tim Fielder, John Jennings, Jessi Jumanji, Amber Johnson, Sheeba Maya, Stacey Robinson, and Quentin VerCetty

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NLS9781498510554
9781498510554
1498510558
The Black Speculative Arts Movement: Black Futurity, Art+Design by Reynaldo Anderson
Reynaldo Anderson
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Paperback
Lexington Books
2021-03-29
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