1st Edition
Afrofuturism’s Transcultural Trajectories Resistant Imaginaries Between Margins and Mainstreams
1. Afrofuturist trajectories across time, space and media
Eva Ulrike Pirker and Judith Rahn
Section 1: Trajectories of Alternative Visions on Three Continents
2. "Afrotopia?": an Afrofuturist examination of Chad Hartigan’s film Morris from America (2016)
Ousmane Power-Greene
3. Reframing the post-apocalypse in Black British film: the dystopian Afrofuturism of Welcome II the Terrordome and Shank
Felipe Espinoza Garrido
4. Wangari Maathai’s environmental Afrofuturist imaginary in Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi
James Wachira
Section 2: Afrofuturist Soundscapes
5. A question of the sonic: problematizing Afrofuturism and its relation to Black Sound, with a case study of DJ Steloolive’s performance art
Cezara Nicola
6. The cosmic submarine—Yugen Blakrok’s sonar echoes
Pius Jonas Vögele
Section 3: Envisioning Afrofutures in Literature and Film
7. Math and magic: Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti trilogy and its challenge to the dominance of Western science in science fiction
Bettina Burger
8. Wakanda Africa do you see? Reading Black Panther as a decolonial film through the lens of the Sankofa theory
Elisabeth Abena Osei
Biography
Eva Ulrike Pirker is Senior Lecturer in Anglophone Studies and Literary Translation at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany, where she also curates the Centre for Translation Studies’ programme (ctsdus.hhu.de).
Judith Rahn is Lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. She has published on issues of posthumanism, affect and monstrosity.
