| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 259 pages) |
| Series |
African literature today ; 39 |
| Contents |
<B>EDITORIAL ARTICLE</b><br>Introduction: Science & Speculative Fiction -- What is <i>Past </i>and<i> Present . . . </i>and What is <i>Future</i>?<br>LOUISA UCHUM EGBUNIKE and CHIMALUM NWANKWO<br><br><b>ARTICLES</b><br> 'Being very human in one of the most inhuman cities in the world': Lagos as a Site of Africanfuturist Invasion in <i>Lagoon</i> and <i>Godhunter</i><br>JANELLE RODRIQUES<br><br>Southern Africannearfutures: black-tech, ambivalence, and speculation in Namwali Serpell's <i>The Old Drift</i> and Masande Ntshanga's <i>Triangulum</i><br>JEFFREY G. DODD<br><br><i>Woman of the Aeroplanes</i> and the Prediction of the Future<br>CHUKWUNONSO EZEIYOKE<br><br>Re-membering the Past: <i>Black Panther</i>, Sovereignty, and the Cultural Politics of Africanfuturism<br>KAYODE ODUMBONI<br><br>African Counter-utopias: from Counter-narratives to the Presentification of Alternative Worlds<br>ERIC TSIMI<br><br>Shifting the Frame: Re-imagining Chinua Achebe's <i>Things Fall Apart </i>and <i>Arrow of God </i>as Speculative Narratives<br>CLARA IJEOMA OSUJI<br><br>Contemporary Ugandan Speculative Fiction: A Passing Fad or an Emerging Canon?<br>EDGAR NABUTANYI<br><br>Moving the Centre: Positions and Locations of African Speculative Fiction<br>JAMES ORAO<br><br><b>FEATURE ARTICLE</b><br> Reimagining Transracial Intimacy: The Cartography of Decolonial Love in Leila Aboulela's Something Old, Something New' and Tomi Adeaga's 'Marriage and Other Impediments'<br>GABRIEL BAMGBOSE<br><br><b>INTERVIEWS</b><br><br>With Chigozie Obioma<br>LOUISA UCHUM EGBUNIKE<br><br>With Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o <br>KADIJA GEORGE<br><br>With Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu<br>KUFRE USANGA<br><br><br><b>LITERARY SUPPLEMENT</b><br> 'Poison for the Dogs' (Short Story)<br>ESHITIKA L. LUTOMIA<br><br>'Wherever Something Stands Something Else Must Stand Beside It' (Short Story)<br>A. ONIPEDE HOLLIST <br><br>'The Song-Warrior' (Short Story)<br>REGINALD OFODILE<br><br>'Answers that will not be swallowed' (Poem)<br>'When a bitch eats her young' (Poem)<br>'This is how' (Poem)<br>'A Daughter, Coming Undone' (Poem)<br>'Crumbs' (Poem)<br> 'Not Crying' (Poem)<br>IQUO DIANAABASI<br><br>'The String of Discord' (Poem)<br>"Destiny's Dish" <br>'Tasha' (Poem)<br>AISHA UMAR<br><br>'African Children' (Poem)<br>TIJANI ABDULLAHI OLANIYI<br><br>'Nun's Twilight Call' (Poem) <br>CLARA IJEOMA OSUJI<br><br>'To Mokwugo Okoye -- A Forsaken Freedom Fighter' (Poem)<br> IFEOMA OKOYE<br><br><b>REMEMBERING ELDRED JONES (1925-2020) </b><br> Farewell, Othello's Countryman<br>NIYI OSUNDARE<br><br>Professor Eldred Jones: A Humanist and Critic<br>ELIZABETH I.A. KAMARA<br><br><b>TRIBUTE</b><br>Chukwuemeka Ike: An Administrator with a Cinematic Imagination<br>AUSTINE AMANZE AKPUDA <br><br><br><b>REVIEWS</b><br> Sakui Malakpa, <i>Black Professor, White University</i><br>OBI NWAKANMA<br><br>Daria Tunca (ed), <i>Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie </i><br>KATE HARLIN <br><br>Ernest Emenyonu, <i>The Literary History of the Igbo Novel</i>: <i>African Literature in African Languages</i><br>KUFRE USANGA <br><br>Jack Mapanje, <i>Greetings from Grandpa</i><br>OLUFEMI DUNMADE <br><br>Ada Uzoamaka Azodo & Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo (eds), <i>Resident Alien and Other Stories: An Anthology of Immigrant Voices from Africa and the African Diaspora</i><br>INI UKO |
| Summary |
"Over the past two decades, there has been a resurgence in the writing of African and African diaspora speculative and science fiction writing. Discussions around the 'rise' of science-fiction and fantasy have led to a push-back by writers and scholars who have suggested that this is not a new phenomenon in African literature. This collection focuses on the need to recalibrate ways of reading and categorising this grenre of African writing through critical examinations both of classics such as Kojo Laing's Woman of the Aeroplanes (1988) and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's oeuvre, as well as more recent fiction from writers including Nnedi Okorafor, Namwali Serpell and Masande Ntshanga."--Back cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
African fiction -- History and criticism
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Speculative fiction -- History and criticism
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Science fiction, African -- History and criticism
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African fiction
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Science fiction, African
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Speculative fiction
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| Genre/Form |
Literary criticism
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nwankwo, Chimalum Moses, 1949- editor.
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Egbunike, Louisa Uchum, editor
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| ISBN |
9781800102897 |
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1800102895 |
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9781800102903 |
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1800102909 |
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