Black Apocalypse
Afrofuturism at the End of the World
«“Sweeps through alienation, cognitive estrangement, decolonisation, black tragic vision—a disciplined practice for imagining alternate futures, and the animated role of dystopian fiction in the digital space.”»
Aurealis
Juxtaposing the world-building of afrofuturism and the world-negating of afropessimism to show how both movements have offered us critical resources of hope.
Science fiction imagines aliens and global crises as world-unifying events, both a threat and promise for the future. Les mer
Science fiction imagines aliens and global crises as world-unifying events, both a threat and promise for the future. Les mer
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Juxtaposing the world-building of afrofuturism and the world-negating of afropessimism to show how both movements have offered us critical resources of hope.
Science fiction imagines aliens and global crises as world-unifying events, both a threat and promise for the future. Black Apocalypse is an introduction to the past and present of black engagement with speculative futures. From Octavia Butler to W.E.B. Du Bois to Sun Ra, Tavia Nyong’o shows that the end of the world is crucial to afrofuturism and reframes the binary of afropessimism and afrofuturism to explore their similarities.
Interweaving black trans, queer, and feminist theories, Nyong'o examines the social, technological, and existential threats facing our species and reflects on shifting anxieties and hopes for the future. Exploring the apocalypse in movies, art, literature, and music, this book considers the endless afterlives of slavery and inequality and revives the radical black imagination to envision the future of blackness. Black Apocalypse argues that black aesthetics take us to the edge of this world and into the next.
Science fiction imagines aliens and global crises as world-unifying events, both a threat and promise for the future. Black Apocalypse is an introduction to the past and present of black engagement with speculative futures. From Octavia Butler to W.E.B. Du Bois to Sun Ra, Tavia Nyong’o shows that the end of the world is crucial to afrofuturism and reframes the binary of afropessimism and afrofuturism to explore their similarities.
Interweaving black trans, queer, and feminist theories, Nyong'o examines the social, technological, and existential threats facing our species and reflects on shifting anxieties and hopes for the future. Exploring the apocalypse in movies, art, literature, and music, this book considers the endless afterlives of slavery and inequality and revives the radical black imagination to envision the future of blackness. Black Apocalypse argues that black aesthetics take us to the edge of this world and into the next.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of California Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 136
- ISBN
- 9780520388482
- Utgivelsesår
- 2025
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
Om forfatteren
Tavia Nyong’o is the author of
The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory and
Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life. He is a professor of performance studies at Yale University and a curator at the Park Avenue Armory.
Anmeldelser
«“Sweeps through alienation, cognitive estrangement, decolonisation, black tragic vision—a disciplined practice for imagining alternate futures, and the animated role of dystopian fiction in the digital space.”»
Aurealis
«In Black Apocalypse, Nyong'o provides a succinct, comprehensive exploration of connections between afrofuturism and afropessimism, introducing the term “Black counter-speculation” to describe persistent, alternative worldmaking in the face of ongoing Black erasure.»
CHOICE
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“Brilliantly brings the afropessimist theorizations of Frank Wilderson III, amongst others, into engagement with a wide range of afrofuturist cultural production of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.”
» Society for US Intellectual History