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Afrofuturism en · NOUN

Etymology

From Afro- + futurism, coined by American journalist Mark Dery in 1992.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) An Afrocentric literary and cultural aesthetic that combines elements of science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, and magic realism in relation to the African diaspora, especially in the Americas.
    • Post-Blackness and Afrofuturism are related in that the latter offers a method of problematizing the idea that a progressive way ahead involves the dissolution of race and erasure of racial performativity. 2019, Eddie Chambers, The Routledge Companion to African American Art History, Routledge, →ISBN:

Relateds

Afrofuturist · Africanfuturism · Afropunk · Afrofuturistic · techno-orientalism