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Ernest N. Emenyonu
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Edgar Fred Nabutanyi
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Dr Clara Ijeoma Osuji
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Dr Éric Tsimi
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Eshitika L. Lutomia
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Kadija George (Sessay)
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Dr A. Onipede Hollist
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Reginald Chiedu Ofodile
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Diana Abasi Iquo
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Umar M. Aisha
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Tijani Abdullahi Olaniyi
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Louisa Uchum Egbunike
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Ifeoma Okoye
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Dr Niyi Osundare
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Elizabeth L.A Kamara
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Austine Amanze Akpuda
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Chimalum Nwankwo
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Gabriel Bámgbóé
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Kayode Odumboni
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Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso
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Jeffrey Dodd
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Dr Janelle Rodriques
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Dr James Orao
pubblicato da
Boydell & Brewer
Over the past two decades, there has been a resurgence in the writing of African and African diaspora speculative and science fiction writing. Recent discussions around the "rise of science-fiction and fantasy" in Africa have led to a push-back, in which writers and scholars have suggested that science fiction and fantasy is not a new phenomenon in African literature, but that the deep past of the African world and its complex and mysterious foundations still register in burgeoning modern literary productions. Such influences can be seen in early twentieth-century writers such as D.O. Fagunwa's classic novel (1938) Ogboji Ode ninu Igbo Irunmale (The Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga), the mythopoeia of Elechi Amadi's The Concubine (1966) as well as the dystopian writing of Buchi Emecheta in The Rape of Shavi (1983). This volume shows this long tradition of speculative literature in examining African classics such as Kojo Laing's Woman of the Aeroplanes (1988) and the oeuvre of Ngg wa Thiong'o. The volume also critically examines modern African texts from writers including Nnedi Okorafor, Namwali Serpell and Masande Ntshanga, as well as critically looking at the terms 'Afrofuturism' and 'Africanfuturism' vis-à-vis their particular cultural aesthetics and suitability in describing tradition rooted African speculative arts.
This volume also includes a Literary Supplement.
Guest Editors: LOUISA UCHUM EGBUNIKE (Associate Professor in African and Caribbean Literature, Durham University) and CHIMALUM NWANKWO (Writer-in-Residence, Department of English and Literary Studies, Veritas University, Abuja, Nigeria).
Series Editor: Ernest N. Emenyonu (Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint)
Reviews Editor: Obi Nwakanma (Fellow, Department of English University of Central Florida).
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