And she gave us actually more than one because she was basically saying, “This is a very broad topic. Kendra: Which I really appreciated how Womack started with this definition. But the idea is that it primarily centers Black futures-and Black and African understandings of. So it can incorporate, as the title of this book suggests, science fiction, fantasy, dystopia, and a whole bunch of other subgenres beneath those. And so I think the first question that everyone seems to be asking is “What is Afrofuturism?”īezi: So Afrofuturism, in short-and as you will soon learn in the rest of the episode, nothing about this is short, but I will try and give a short version-Afrofuturism can be understood as the way that Black people think about and imagine futures that usually involve ideas about science fiction, aliens, post-apocalyptic futures, and fantastic devices and metaphors. So we’ve had a lot of questions about Afrofuturism on the Reading Women Challenge discussion board. Womack, and it’s out from Lawrence Hill Press. So the full title of that book is Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture by Ytasha L. Kendra: So I think a great place to start with this episode is actually our first discussion pick, Afrofuturism, since it does define and talk about what Afrofuturism is. To close out Reading Women‘s month on Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism, Kendra, Sachi, and Bezi discuss Afrofuturism and Parable of the Sower.
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