Black Apocalypse : Afrofuturism at the End of the World (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present)

Nyong'o, Tavia

University of California Press（2025/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 136 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780520388468
• DDC分類 700.452996

Full Description

Juxtaposing the world-building of afrofuturism and the world-negating of afropessimism to show how both movements have offered us critical resources of hope.
 
Science fiction imagines aliens and global crises as world-unifying events, both a threat and promise for the future. Black Apocalypse is an introduction to the past and present of black engagement with speculative futures. From Octavia Butler to W.E.B. Du Bois to Sun Ra, Tavia Nyong'o shows that the end of the world is crucial to afrofuturism and reframes the binary of afropessimism and afrofuturism to explore their similarities.
 
Interweaving black trans, queer, and feminist theories, Nyong'o examines the social, technological, and existential threats facing our species and reflects on shifting anxieties and hopes for the future. Exploring the apocalypse in movies, art, literature, and music, this book considers the endless afterlives of slavery and inequality and revives the radical black imagination to envision the future of blackness. Black Apocalypse argues that black aesthetics take us to the edge of this world and into the next.

Contents

Contents

Overview 

Introduction
1. The Virus Is the Alien
2. The Changing Same
3. A Reenchanted Cosmos?

Conclusion

Acknowledgments 
Notes 
Glossary 
Selected Bibliography