"Africa As an Alien Future"

Mayer, Ruth

"Africa As an Alien Future"

dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage	555	en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue	4	en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage	566	en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume	45	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Mayer, Ruth
dc.date.accessioned	2022-07-20T13:47:49Z
dc.date.available	2022-07-20T13:47:49Z
dc.date.issued	2000	en_US
dc.description.abstract	This paper investigates recent revisionist representations of the Middle Passage, enacted in the visual arts, literature, and pop music. Most of the texts I explore can be subsumed under the heading 'Afrofuturism,' an artistic and theoretical movement which has become a vital part of contemporary black diasporic (pop) culture. Afrofuturist artists turn to black history in order to recreate it in a markedly fantastic mode. Mixing up the imagery of the Middle Passage with contemporary experiences of displacement, migration, and alienation, they turn the project of recuperating the past into a futuristic venture.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2166
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.relation.issn	0340-2827	en_US
dc.relation.journal	Amerikastudien / American Studies	en_US
dc.rights	L::CC BY-NC 4.0	en_US
dc.subject.ddc	ddc:810	en_US
dc.subject.field	americanstudies	en_US
dc.subject.field	literarystudies	en_US
dc.subject.field	postcolonial	en_US
dc.title	"Africa As an Alien Future"	en_US
dc.title.alternative	The Middle Passage, Afrofuturism, and Postcolonial Waterworlds	en_US
dc.title.specialissue	Time and the African-American Experience	en_US
dc.type	article	en_US
dc.type.version	acceptedVersion	en_US
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