ALT 39 (eBook)

Speculative & Science Fiction

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2021
276 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer (Verlag)
978-1-80010-290-3 (ISBN)

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Explores the ways in which African writers have approached speculative fiction through in-depth articles on the use of language, terminology and the genealogy of the works.Over the past two decades, there has been a resurgence in the writing of African and African diaspora speculative and science fiction writing. Recent discussions around the "e;rise of science-fiction and fantasy"e; in Africa have led to a push-back, in which writers and scholars have suggested that science fiction and fantasy is not a new phenomenon in African literature, but that the deep past of the African world and its complex and mysterious foundations still register in burgeoning modern literary productions. Such influences can be seen in early twentieth-century writers such as D.O. Fagunwa's classic novel (1938) Ogboji Ode ninu Igbo Irunmale (The Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga), the mythopoeia of Elechi Amadi's The Concubine (1966) as well as the dystopian writing of Buchi Emecheta in The Rape of Shavi (1983). This volume shows this long tradition of speculative literature in examining African classics such as Kojo Laing's Woman of the Aeroplanes (1988) and the oeuvre of Ngugi wa Thiong'o. The volume also critically examines modern African texts from writers including Nnedi Okorafor, Namwali Serpell and Masande Ntshanga, as well as critically looking at the terms 'Afrofuturism' and 'Africanfuturism' vis-a-vis their particular cultural aesthetics and suitability in describing tradition rooted African speculative arts. This volume also includes a Literary Supplement. Guest Editors: LOUISA UCHUM EGBUNIKE (Associate Professor in African and Caribbean Literature, Durham University) and CHIMALUM NWANKWO (Writer-in-Residence, Department of English and Literary Studies, Veritas University, Abuja, Nigeria).Series Editor: Ernest N. Emenyonu (Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint)Reviews Editor: Obi Nwakanma (Fellow, Department of English University of Central Florida).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.11.2021
• Co-Autor: Umar M. Aisha, Elizabeth L.A Kamara, Eshitika L. Lutomia, Edgar Fred Nabutanyi, Chimalum Nwankwo, Kayode Odumboni, Reginald Chiedu Ofodile, IFEOMA OKOYE, Tijani Abdullahi Olaniyi, James Orao, Clara Ijeoma Osuji, Austine Amanze Akpuda, Niyi Osundare, Janelle Rodriques, Eric Tsimi, Gabriel Bamgbose, Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso, Jeffrey Dodd, Louisa Uchum Egbunike, Kadija (Sessay) George, A. Onipede Hollist, Diana Abasi Iquo
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): Ernest N. Emenyonu; Gast Herausgeber: Louisa Uchum Egbunike, Chimalum Nwankwo
• Verlagsort: Woodbridge
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: african classics • Africanfuturism • African literature • African writers • afrofuturism • cultural aesthetics • dystopian writing • Genealogy • language • Science Fiction • Speculative Fiction • Terminology • Tradition
• ISBN-10: 1-80010-290-9 / 1800102909
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80010-290-3 / 9781800102903