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Janelle Monáe’s Afrofuturism
This chapter introduces Afrofuturism as a cultural form that centers Blackness within a genre of speculative fiction that has historically been...
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Afrofuturism and Animism as Method: Art History and Decolonisation in Black Panther
Art Historians have, since the late twentieth century, grappled with the discipline’s origins as a nineteenth-century Western European discourse...
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A Regular Little Vampire: Symbiosis, Power and Afrofuturist Vampiric Subjects in the Fiction of Octavia E. Butler
This chapter explores the representation of vampiric subjects in Octavia E. Butler’s fiction. Although only one of her published works (Fledgling...
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A Regular Little Vampire: Symbiosis, Power and Afrofuturist Vampiric Subjects in the Fiction of Octavia E. Butler
This chapter explores the representation of vampiric subjects in Octavia E. Butler’s fiction. Although only one of her published works (Fledgling...
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Black Art, Black Rage, and Black Lives Matter: The Influence of the Black Arts Movement
This chapter explores the Black Arts Movement as the cultural sector of the Black Power Movement and an artistic launch point for an arts-based...
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The Futurist Imaginaries of the Zimbabwean Conditions in Winky D’s Njema
The chapter analyses Winky D’s 2019 album, Njema, drawing on the Afrofuturist and science-fiction nuances reflected in the album cover and selected...
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Conclusion: Breaking Boundaries, Leaking Truths, Pressing Issues: Ghost Wall (Moss, 2018)
Contemporary women’s ghost stories focus on both loss and recovery, moving on. This chapter looks at the relationship between mankind and nature in...
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Reclamation: Beyond Racial Capitalism
This chapter first explains how the central thematic concepts used in previous chapters—Afrofuturism, queerness, and Black feminism—are united by an...
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Neon
This chapter functions as an introduction to the B-52s, laying out a rationale and argument for why they are important and what makes their music and...
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Women Vampires and Their Women Authors 1950–2000
This chapter explores how, in vampire fiction by women from around 1950–2000 and beyond, women vampires are created as an imaginative weathervane for...
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Musical Metropolis: Janelle Monáe’s Scalar Agility
Janelle Monáe—whose output spans the genres of R&B, psychedelic soul, hip-hop and Afrofuturist funk—is a prime example of a musician with scalar...
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Women Vampires and Their Women Authors 1950–2000
This chapter explores how, in vampire fiction by women from around 1950–2000 and beyond, women vampires are created as an imaginative weathervane for...
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Re-Read and Recover: Afrofuturism as a Reading Practice in George S. Schuyler’s Black No More and Octavia E. Butler’s “The Book of Martha”
Stanley proposes that an Afrofuturistic reading of George S. Schuyler’s Black No More and Octavia E. Butler’s “The Book of Martha” expand the canon...
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Dreaming of Afrofuturism, Epic Fantasy, and Utopia in N. K. Jemisin’s Dreamblood Duology
N. K. Jemisin dreams up an Afrofuturist feminist counter-history of utopia in both The Killing Moon (2012) and The Shadowed Sun (2012). Comprising...
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Ways of Seeing Comics: Art-Historical Approaches to the Form
This chapter introduces Art History’s distance from the development of comics scholarship as an interdisciplinary field and the impact this has had...
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Re-programming the Present: The Dynamism of Black Futurity in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber
This chapter investigates the tangibility and productiveness of Afrofuturism as an aesthetic mode and genre invested in utopia. It argues that...
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Celebration: Black Feminist Futures
This chapter brings Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer into dialogue with Black feminist thought. It first introduces a number of key concepts from the...
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OutKast’s Speakerboxxx/The Love Below: Musical Theatre, Performance, and Style
When I started high school, I was shy, timid, and insecure: a major departure from the confident, outgoing adolescence I had once been. I had become...
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Futures
In this final chapter, we reflect on the implications that social media have for Indigenous futures. We ask: what futures do they open for Indigenous...