{"product_id":"afro-centered-futurisms-in-our-speculative-fiction-9798765114674","title":"Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e· 2025 Locus Awards Winner, Non-Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cstrong\u003e· 2025 Ignyte Awards Winner, Outstanding Creative Nonfiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cstrong\u003e· 2025 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist, African American Non-Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cstrong\u003e· 2024 \u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cstrong\u003e· 2024 British Science Fiction Association Award (BSFA) Shortlist, Best Short Non-Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cstrong\u003e· 2024 BSFA Award Longlist, Best Long Non-Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cstrong\u003e· One of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrittle Paper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e's 100 Notable African Books of 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cstrong\u003e· One of \u003ci\u003eOpen Country Mag\u003c\/i\u003e's 60 Notable African Books of 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeatures an introduction by Suyi Okungbowa.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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 Afrodescendant 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eContributing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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 colour zones of their own image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47423708922092,"sku":"9798765114674","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/71SSkbfBmrL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774428749","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/afro-centered-futurisms-in-our-speculative-fiction-9798765114674","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}