| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Ohio University research in international studies. Africa series ; no. 96 |
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Research in international studies. Africa series ; no. 96.
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| Contents |
Introduction : Africanfuturism, development, and humanities -- Afrofuturist ecolinguistics : redefining the "science" of science fiction -- Birthing the future : métissage and cultural hybridity in Francophone African women's writing -- Child soldiers : re-inscribing the human in a culture of perpetual war -- Alienation, estrangement and dreams of departure : emigration and the politics of global inequality in (and out of) Francophone Africa -- 'We don't need no education' : alternative pedagogies and epistemologies in Bassek Ba Kobhio's Sango malo (1991) and Le silence de la forêt (2004) -- Paradis artificiels : the lottery of global economies in Djibril Diop Mambety's Le franc, Imunga Ivanga's Dôlé, and Fadika Kramo-Lanciné's Wariko -- Arguing against the shame of the state : Sony Labou Tansi's ecocriticial womanism and Gaiacene planetarity -- Conclusion : toward an Afrofuturist eco-humanist philosophy of experience |
| Summary |
"As a philosophical, literary, and visual aesthetic, Afrofuturism has been predominately defined through Anglophone, diasporic expressions. In Afrofuturisms Isaac Vincent Joslin reorients and expands this critical discourse toward colonial and postcolonial Francophone literature and film originating from continental Africa"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
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Futurism (Literary movement) -- Africa, French-speaking
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Futurism (Art) -- Africa, French-speaking
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Science fiction, African -- History and criticism
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Science fiction films -- Africa, French-speaking -- History and criticism
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African literature (French) -- History and criticism
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Ecoliterature.
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Humanism -- Africa, French-speaking
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Africa, French-speaking -- Civilization -- 21st century
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African literature (French)
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Ecoliterature
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Futurism (Art)
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Futurism (Literary movement)
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Humanism
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Science fiction, African
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Science fiction films
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French-speaking Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022051158 |
| ISBN |
089680514X |
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9780896805149 |
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