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E-grāmata: ALT 39: Speculative & Science Fiction

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  • Formāts: 276 pages
  • Sērija : African Literature Today
  • Izdošanas datums: 19-Nov-2021
  • Izdevniecība: James Currey
  • Valoda: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781800102897
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  • Formāts: 276 pages
  • Sērija : African Literature Today
  • Izdošanas datums: 19-Nov-2021
  • Izdevniecība: James Currey
  • Valoda: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781800102897

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Over the past two decades, there has been a resurgence in the writing of African and African diaspora speculative and science fiction writing. Recent discussions around the "rise of science-fiction and fantasy" in Africa have led to a push-back, in which writers and scholars have suggested that science fiction and fantasy is not a new phenomenon in African literature, but that the deep past of the African world and its complex and mysterious foundations still register in burgeoning modern literary productions. Such influences can be seen in early twentieth-century writers such as D.O. Fagunwa's classic novel (1938) Ogboji Ode ninu Igbo Irunmale (The Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga), the mythopoeia of Elechi Amadi's The Concubine (1966) as well as the dystopian writing of Buchi Emecheta in The Rape of Shavi (1983). This volume shows this long tradition of speculative literature in examining African classics such as Kojo Laing's Woman of the Aeroplanes (1988) and the oeuvre of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. The volume also critically examines modern African texts from writers including Nnedi Okorafor, Namwali Serpell and Masande Ntshanga, as well as critically looking at the terms 'Afrofuturism' and 'Africanfuturism' vis-à-vis their particular cultural aesthetics and suitability in describing tradition rooted African speculative arts.

This volume also includes a Literary Supplement.

Guest Editors: LOUISA UCHUM EGBUNIKE (Associate Professor in African and Caribbean Literature, Durham University) and CHIMALUM NWANKWO (Writer-in-Residence, Department of English and Literary Studies, Veritas University, Abuja, Nigeria).

Series Editor: Ernest N. Emenyonu (Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint)
Reviews Editor: Obi Nwakanma (Fellow, Department of English University of Central Florida).

Explores the ways in which African writers have approached speculative fiction through in-depth articles on the use of language, terminology and the genealogy of the works.

Recenzijas

This constructive volume 39 of African Literature Today arrives with absorbing focus on the inherently speculative nature of African writing. The articles, interviews, literary supplements comprising short fiction, poetry and reviews will enchant lovers of black speculative fiction. [ ...] This is truly a worthwhile read. * Aurealis *

Notes on Contributors xi
Introduction: Speculative & Science Fiction: What is Past & Present ... & What is Future? 1(13)
Louisa Uchum Egbunike
Chimalum Nwankwo
ARTICLES
`Being very human in one of the most inhuman cities in the world': Lagos as a Site of Afncanfuturist Invasion in Lagoon & Godhunter
14(17)
Janelle Rodriques
Southern Africannearfutures: Black-tech, Ambivalence, & Speculation in Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift & Masande Ntshanga's Triangulum
31(12)
Jeffrey G. Dodd
Woman of the Aeroplanes & the Prediction of the Future
43(14)
Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso
Re-membering the Past: Black Panther, Sovereignty, & the Cultural Politics of Africanfuturism
57(14)
Kayode Odumboni
African Counter-Utopias: From Counter-narratives to the Presentification of Alternative Worlds
71(12)
Eric Essono Tsimi
Shifting the Frame: Re-imagimng Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart & Arrow of God as Speculative Narratives
83(12)
Clara Ijeoma Osuji
Contemporary Ugandan Speculative Fiction: A Passing Fad or an Emerging Canon?
95(16)
Edgar Nabutanyi
Moving the Centre: Positions & Locations of African Speculative Fiction
111(15)
James Orao
FEATURED ARTICLE
Reimagining Transracial Intimacy: The Cartography of Decolonial Love in Leila Aboulela's `Something Old, Something New' & Tomi Adeaga's `Marriage and Other Impediments'
126(14)
Gabriel Bamgbose
INTERVIEWS
With Chigozie Obioma
140(10)
Louisa Uchum Egbunike
With Ngugi wa Thiong'o
150(6)
Kadija Sesay
With Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu
156(6)
Kufre Usanga
LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
`Poison for the Dogs' (Short Story)
162(11)
Eshitika L. Lutomia
`Wherever Something Stands Something Else Must Stand Beside It'(Short Story)
173(10)
A. Onipede Hollist
`The Song-Warrior' (Short Story)
183(9)
Reginald Ofodile
SIX POEMS
`Answers that will not be swallowed' (Poem)
192(1)
`When a bitch eats her young' (Poem)
193(1)
`This is how' (Poem)
194(1)
A Daughter, Coming Undone' (Poem)
195(1)
Crumbs' (Poem)
196(1)
`Not Crying' (Poem)
197(2)
Iquo Diana Abasi
THREE POEMS
`The String of Discord' (Poem)
199(1)
`Destiny's Dish' (Poem)
200(1)
`Tasha' (Poem)
200(2)
Aisha Umar
`African Children' (Poem)
202(2)
Tijani Abdullahi Olaniyi
`Nun's Twilight Call' (Poem)
204(2)
Clara Ijeoma Osuji
`To Mokwugo Okoye -- A Forsaken Freedom Fighter' (Poem)
206(4)
Ifeoma Okoye
TRIBUTES
Remembering Eldred Durosimi Jones (6 January 1925--21 March 2020): Farewell, Othello's Countryman
210(4)
Niyi Osundare
Professor Eldred Durosimi Jones: A Humanist & Critic
214(9)
Elizabeth L.A. Kamara
Chukwuemeka Ike: An Administrator with a Cinematic Imagination
223(15)
Austine Amanze Akpuda
REVIEWS
Sakui Malakpa, Black Professor, White University
238(5)
Obi Nwakanma
Daria Tunca (ed.), Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
243(5)
Kate Harlin
Ernest Emenyonu, The Literary History of the Igbo Novel: African Literature in African Languages
248(3)
Kufre Usanga
Jack Mapanje, Greetings from Grandpa
251(3)
Olufemi Dunmade
Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo (eds), Resident Alien and Other Stories: An Anthology of Immigrant Voices from Africa and the African Diaspora
254
Iniobong Uko
ERNEST N. EMENYONU is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012). LOUISA UCHUM EGBUNIKE is Associate Professor in African and Caribbean Literature, Durham University). She has been guest lecturer to institutions including Wellesley College, The University of the West Indies and The University of Bremen. She has published in journals including African Literature Today and Matatu and has chapters published in edited books including A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. CHIMALUM NWANKWO is Writer-in-Residence, Department of English and Literary Studies, Veritas University, Abuja, Nigeria. He has previously taught at the Universities of Nigeria, East Carolina-Greenville, North Carolina A & T State University-Greensboro, where he was Professor of English and World Literatures and Former Chair of the Department of English, Nigeria Turkish Nile University in Abuja. He was Guest Editor of ALT 30 Reflections & Retrospectives. His other critical studies include Of the Deepest Shadows and The Prisons of Fire (2010) and Toward the kingdom of Woman and Man: The Works of Ngugi wa Thiongo (1992). He is also an acclaimed poet, who has published five volumes of poetry, including The Womb in the Heart and Other Poems and Lovesong for Julian Assange & Poems from Love Mountain. LOUISA UCHUM EGBUNIKE is Associate Professor in African and Caribbean Literature, Durham University). She has been guest lecturer to institutions including Wellesley College, The University of the West Indies and The University of Bremen. She has published in journals including African Literature Today and Matatu and has chapters published in edited books including A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. CHIMALUM NWANKWO is Writer-in-Residence, Department of English and Literary Studies, Veritas University, Abuja, Nigeria. He has previously taught at the Universities of Nigeria, East Carolina-Greenville, North Carolina A & T State University-Greensboro, where he was Professor of English and World Literatures and Former Chair of the Department of English, Nigeria Turkish Nile University in Abuja. He was Guest Editor of ALT 30 Reflections & Retrospectives. His other critical studies include Of the Deepest Shadows and The Prisons of Fire (2010) and Toward the kingdom of Woman and Man: The Works of Ngugi wa Thiongo (1992). He is also an acclaimed poet, who has published five volumes of poetry, including The Womb in the Heart and Other Poems and Lovesong for Julian Assange & Poems from Love Mountain.