Afrofuturism
nounEtymology From Afro- + futurism, coined by American journalist Mark Dery in 1992.
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An Afrocentric literary and cultural aesthetic that combines elements of science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, and magic realism.
- Post-Blackness and Afrofuturism are related in that the latter offers a method of problematizing the idea that a progressive way ahead involves the dissolution of race and erasure of racial performativity.2019, Eddie Chambers, The Routledge Companion to African American Art History, Routledge, →ISBN:
- Related terms
- Afrofuturist, Afrofuturistic, Afropunk, techno-orientalism, Africanfuturism