Confessions of a Sable Fan Gyrl
Random musings from an afrofuturist wanna-be.
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Random musings from an afrofuturist wanna-be.
This Tumblr Universe created, produced and directed by writer & blogger Kismet Nuñez (...an iwannalive production...)
Below are a few of the pieces that informed my post on Rihanna and afrofuturism. A more comprehensive bibliography on afrofuturism and black speculative fiction is available here: http://afrofuturism.net/criticism/. For a piece like “Man Down,” there is a lot of work in the field of gender and women studies, black feminist studies, and hip hop studies that should also be considered but is not listed here. Good starting places include work by Farrah Jasmine Griffin and Hortense Spillers, the Feminist Wire website, the Crunk Feminist Collective blog and the Come Correct Tumblr.
Florian Bast, “I won’t always ask”: Complicating Agency in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling. COPAS. http://www-copas.uni-regensburg.de/articles/issue_11/11_08_text_bast.php
Bould, Mark. “The Ships Landed Long Ago: Afrofuturism and Black SF.” Science Fiction Studies 34, no. 2 (July 1, 2007): 177-186. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4241520.
MarkDery, “BlacktotheFuture: Interviews withSamuel R. Delany, GregTate, andTricia Rose,”in FlameWars: TheDiscourseof Cyberculture, ed. MarkDery, 179–222(Durham, N.C.: Duke UniversityPress,1994).
Whitey on the moon - gil scott-heron, 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtBy_ppG4hY&feature=youtube_gdata_player.
Lavender, Isiah. “Ethnoscapes: Environment and Language in Ishmael Reed’s ‘Mumbo Jumbo’, Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Intuitionist’, and Samuel R. Delany’s ‘Babel-17’.” Science Fiction Studies 34, no. 2 (July 1, 2007): 187-200. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4241521.
LEWIS, GEORGE E. “Foreword: After Afrofuturism.” Journal of the Society for American Music 2, no. 2 (2008): 139-153. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=1848052&fulltextType=ED&fileId=S1752196308080048.
Nelson, Alondra. “Introduction: Future Texts.” Social Text 20, no. 2 (2002): 1-15. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/social_text/v020/20.2nelson01.html.
Smith, Darryl A. “Droppin’ Science Fiction: Signification and Singularity in the Metapocalypse of Du Bois, Baraka, and Bell.” Science Fiction Studies 34, no. 2 (July 1, 2007): 201-219. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4241522.
Mark Sinker, Loving the Alien, The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music. http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/218/
Tal, Kali. “That Just Kills Me: Black Militant Near-Future Fiction.” Social Text 20, no. 2 (2002): 65-91. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/social_text/v020/20.2tal.html.
