"Africa As an Alien Future"
The Middle Passage, Afrofuturism, and Postcolonial Waterworlds
| 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 |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication |