Reimagining African Identity Through Afrofuturism: A Reading of Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti 2015
| المصدر: | مجلة البحث العلمي في الآداب |
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| الناشر: | جامعة عين شمس - كلية البنات للآداب والعلوم والتربية |
| المؤلف الرئيسي: | Nasser, Shaden Adel (Author) |
| المجلد/العدد: | ع22, ج1 |
| محكمة: | نعم |
| الدولة: |
مصر |
| التاريخ الميلادي: |
2021
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| الشهر: | يناير |
| الصفحات: | 166 - 176 |
| DOI: |
10.21608/JSSA.2021.60767.1232 |
| ISSN: |
2356-8321 |
| رقم MD: | 1149893 |
| نوع المحتوى: | بحوث ومقالات |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
| قواعد المعلومات: | AraBase |
| مواضيع: | |
| كلمات المؤلف المفتاحية: |
Afrofuturism | Nnedi Okorafor | African Identity | African Myths
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| رابط المحتوى: |
عدد مرات التحميل
6
| المستخلص: |
Afrofuturism is a flourishing contemporary movement in African and African American studies. It has attracted black diasporic writers, artists, musicians, and theorists. Afrofuturism has been described by cultural critics as a way of looking, navigating and imagining future conditions of life through a black lens. Afrofuturists illuminate up-to-date issues by placing them in fantastical contexts; more specifically, they address themes and concerns of the black people that have been otherwise neglected in the western futurist canon. One of the most prominent afrofuturist authors, with a close connection to Africa, is Nnedi Okorafor. Her novella Binti (2015), a space travel adventure through an Afrocentric lens, deftly explores questions about the cultural identity in a futuristic world. Accordingly, the study aims to explore the theme of the African identity in Okorafor’s novella, focusing on selected visionary references rooted in African culture to signify a new image for the African in a new environment, where blackness is technologically managed. In so doing, the paper highlights the mix between the incredible myths of the Himba people and technoculture, which make it possible for Okorafor to challenge the stereotypical view of the African identity, put a black face on the future, and mark the novella as an African-inspired futuristic work. |
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| ISSN: |
2356-8321 |
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