{"id":6727,"date":"2024-09-30T18:40:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T16:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redestudiosafricanos.org\/?post_type=comunicacion&#038;p=6727"},"modified":"2024-10-24T13:36:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T11:36:52","slug":"afro-futurism-and-the-work-of-nnedi-okorafor","status":"publish","type":"comunicacion","link":"https:\/\/redestudiosafricanos.org\/en\/comunicacion\/afro-futurism-and-the-work-of-nnedi-okorafor\/","title":{"rendered":"Afro futurism and the work of Nnedi Okorafor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this paper I propose to discuss the work of Nigerian American author Nnedi Okorafor with a particular focus in the Binti Series (2015-2019), sci-fi narratives that &quot;imagine a future&quot; as per her own words.<br \/>\nI start by presenting some of the definitions of Afro-futurism in art, history, culture and knowledge dissemination, paying particular attention to the movements pertaining to the African diaspora. <br \/>\nThe first part presents Mike Dery&#039;s definition of Afrofuturism (1993) namely as he delves into the legacy of authors like Samuel R. Delany and Octavia Butler. <br \/>\nThese introductory references will work as the framing for the analysis of Okorafor&#039;s novellas which deconstruct conventional narrative models and character representation whilst showing a direct connection with the discussions on postcolonial challenges and women&#039;s emancipation. Technology, spirituality, resistance and  ecology come together amid multispecies interactions and the reading of the weight of cultural conventions and collective history in deep connection with the Himba women from southern Africa.<br \/>\nSome other authors that will be considered in this paper are D. Crowley (1994); Ruy Duarte de Carvalho (2004); Michael Bollig (2009); Ytasha Womack (2013).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1163,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"ciea":[87],"class_list":["post-6727","comunicacion","type-comunicacion","status-publish","hentry","ciea-ciea12"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redestudiosafricanos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comunicacion\/6727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redestudiosafricanos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comunicacion"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redestudiosafricanos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/comunicacion"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redestudiosafricanos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/redestudiosafricanos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comunicacion\/6727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8135,"href":"https:\/\/redestudiosafricanos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comunicacion\/6727\/revisions\/8135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redestudiosafricanos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ciea","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redestudiosafricanos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciea?post=6727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}