{"product_id":"afro-centered-futurisms-in-our-speculative-fiction-hardcover","title":"Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEugen Bacon\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eToyin Falola\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAbimbola Adelakun\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this vibrant and approachable book, award-winning writers of black speculative fiction bring together excerpts from their work and creative reflections on futurisms with original essays.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeatures an introduction by Suyi Okungbowa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e showcases creative-critical essays that negotiate genre bending and black speculative fiction with writerly practice. As Afrodecendant peoples with lived experience from the continent, award-winning authors use their intrinsic voices in critical conversations on Afrofuturism and Afro-centered futurisms. By engaging with difference, they present a new kind of African study that is an evaluative gaze at African history, African spirituality, Afrosurrealism, \"becoming,\" black radical imagination, cultural identity, decolonizing queerness, myths, linguistic cosmologies, and more. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contributing authors - Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga, Cheryl S. Ntumy, Dilman Dila, Eugen Bacon, Nerine Dorman, Nuzo Onoh, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Stephen Embleton, Suyi Okungbowa, Tobi Ogundiran and Xan van Rooyen - offer boldly hybrid chapters (both creative and scholarly) that interface Afrocentric artefacts and exegesis. Through ethnographic reflections and intense scrutinies of African fiction, these writers contribute open and diverse reflections of Afro-centered futurisms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The authors in \u003ci\u003eAfro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e feature in major genre and literary awards, including the Bram Stoker, World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Locus, Ignyte, Nommo, Philip K. Dick, Shirley Jackson and Otherwise Awards, among others. They are also intrinsic partners in a vital conversation on the rise of black speculative fiction that explores diversity and social (in)justice, charting poignant stories with black hero\/ines who remake their worlds in color zones of their own image.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEugen Bacon\u003c\/b\u003e, MA, MSc, PhD, is an African Australian author of \u003ci\u003eWriting Speculative Fiction: Creative and Critical Approaches\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2019) and several novels and fiction collections. She is a 2022 World Fantasy Award finalist, and her \u003ci\u003eDanged Black Thing \u003c\/i\u003ewas a finalist in the 2023 BSFA, Foreword, Aurealis and Australian Shadows Awards, and made the Otherwise Award Honor List. Her recent books include \u003ci\u003eMage of Fools\u003c\/i\u003e (novel), \u003ci\u003eChasing Whispers\u003c\/i\u003e (collection) and \u003ci\u003eAn Earnest Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e (essays). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVisit her website at eugenbacon.com and Twitter feed at @\u003cb\u003eEugenBacon\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 14, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754855006496,"sku":"9798765114667","price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e81480f038cc41edd9395a0d761c3c6d_76c07e43-1d34-44c3-9847-041e45563330.webp?v=1780045075","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/afro-centered-futurisms-in-our-speculative-fiction-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}