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Afrofuturism
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English
Etymology
From en Afro futurism, en Q6767356 1992 1 1.
Noun
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An Afrocentric literary and cultural aesthetic that combines elements of science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy and magic realism in relation to the African diaspora, especially in the Americas. from early 1990s
en 2019 Eddie Chambers The Routledge Companion to African American Art History Routledge 9781351045179 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.
Related terms
en Afrofuturist
en Afrofuturistic
See also
en Afropunk
en techno-orientalism
en Africanfuturism
Further reading
en Science fiction