1st Edition

Narrating African FutureS In(ter)ventions and Agencies in African and African diasporic fiction

Edited By Susan Arndt, Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard Copyright 2019
150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

This volume is dedicated to fictional negotiations of future, or rather futureS. After all, ‘future’ cannot but exist in a multitude of complementary and/or competing futures, all causally related to each other just as much as to their pasts and their respective memories. Within this cyclical and causal triad of past, present and future, futureS have been made and unmade, remembered and... Read more

Preface – On futureS, or: the future is on  1. Dream*hoping memory into futureS: reading resistant narratives about Maafa by employing futureS as a category of analysis  2. Diaspora dynamics: shaping the future of literature  3. I am a fundamentalist of freedom  4. Do African digital natives wear glass skirts?  5. Digital Africa  6. Black face in hyperspace  7. Pumzi; the labyrinth of futureS  8. Whiteness and future environmentalism in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999)  9. Contemporary Cameroon poetry in English, nature and the politics of consciousness raising for the future  10. Ayi Kwei Armah’s secular egalitarian Africa: an authentic vision or a utopian dialectic  11. Khal Torabully. "Coolies" and corals, or living in transarchipelagic worlds  12. In transition: self-expression in recent African LGBTIQ narratives

Biography

Susan Arndt is a Literature Professor who has studied and worked in Berlin, London, Frankfurt/Main, Oxford and Bayreuth with a focus on futurity, racism, Shakespeare and African feminism.



Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard is an African-German author, filmmaker/producer, editor, culture activist and managing/artistic director of the NGO Each One Teach One (EOTO) in Berlin.