Afrofuturism

Question 1

Definition - Ramirez

Answer 1

Ramirez describes Afro-futurism as “works of literature, film, art, and music that address the relationship of black people to science, technology, and humanism” (2008:186).

Question 2

Definition - Nobunye Levine

Answer 2

Tension in terms of conceptualisations of the possiblities of Afrofuturism,tension exists between “post-racial” desires and the desire to situate otherwise absent “black bodies” in sci-fi “narratives” and “realities”.

Question 3

Definition of Afrofuturism - Womack/Van Veen

Answer 3

“Womack provides several useful definitions of Afrofuturism, notably as “an intersection of imagination, technology, the future, and liberation”, in which “Afrofuturists redefine culture and notions of blackness for today and the future” by combining “elements of science fiction, historical fiction, speculative fiction, fantasy, Afrocentricity, and magic realism with nonWestern beliefs”