Afrofuturism

English

Etymology

From Afro- +‎ futurism, coined by American journalist Mark Dery in 1992.

Noun

Afrofuturism (uncountable)

  1. An Afrocentric literary and cultural aesthetic that combines elements of science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, and magic realism. [from early 1990s]
    • 2019, Eddie Chambers, The Routledge Companion to African American Art History, Routledge, →ISBN:
      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.

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