Description
The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms delivers a new, inclusive examination of science fiction, from close analyses of single texts to large-scale movements, providing readers with decolonized models of the future, including print, media, race, gender, and social justice.
This comprehensive overview of the field explores representations of possible futures arising from non-Western cultures and ethnic histories that disrupt the 窶彿mperial gaze窶�. In four parts, The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms considers the look of futures from the margins, foregrounding the issues of Indigenous groups, racial, ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities, and any people whose stakes in the global order of envisioning futures are generally constrained due to the mechanics of our contemporary world.
The book extends current discussions in the area, looking at cutting-edge developments in the discipline of science fiction and diverse futurisms as a whole. Offering a dynamic mix of approaches and expansive perspectives, this volume will appeal to academics and researchers seeking to orient their own interventions into broader contexts.
Table of Contents
Introduction to CoFuturisms
Taryne Jade Taylor
Part I
Indigenous Futurisms
- The Future Imaginary
Jason Edward Lewis
- 窶廊ands of Chemical Death窶�: Toxic Survivance in Bunky Echo-Hawk窶冱 窶賂as Masks as Medicine窶� and Misha窶冱 Red Spider White Web
Stina Attebery
- Water, Fire, Earth: Darcie Little Badger窶冱 "Ku Ko Né Ä" Series
Kristina Andrea Baudemann
- Contact, Rationalism, and Indigenous Queer Natures in Ellen Van Neerven窶冱 "Water"
Arlie Alizzi
- Wayfinding Pasifikafuturism: An Indigenous Science Fiction Vision of the Ocean in Space
Gina Cole
- Creating Collaborative Digital Poetic Worlds in the Video Poetry of Heid Erdrich and Kathy Jetñil-Kiijiner
Kasey Jones-Matrona
- Indigenous Young Adult Dystopias
Graham J. Murphy
- Centering Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Futurisms
Channette Romero
- Blackfella Futurism: Speculative Fiction Grounded in Grassroots Sovereignty Politics
Mykaela Saunders
- Anthologizing the Indigenous Environmental Imaginary: Moonshot Volume 3 and Ecocritical Futurisms
Conrad Scott
- Speculative Landscapes of Contemporary North American Indigenous Fiction
Julia Siepak
- Russell Bates (Kiowa): Eco-SF and Indigenous Futurisms
Patrick Sharp
- Welcome to the World of Tomorrow: Terrestrial Sovereignty and Decolonial Apocalypse in Indigenous Futurist Writing
Anne Stewart
- Coding Potawatomi Cosmologies: Elements of Bodwéwadmi Futurisms
Blaire Morseau
- (Re)writing and (Re)beading: Understanding Indigenous Women窶冱 Roles in the
Creation of Indigenous Futurisms
Emily C. Van Alst
- Okinawa Q (an Uckinanchu Futurism): Okinawans Rectify the Unbalanced View of Nature Through Tokusatsu Television and Film
Kenrick H. Kamiya-Yoshida
Part II
Latinx Futurisms
- The Economic Migrant and the Specter of Permanence in Why Cybraceros?, The Rag Doll Plagues, and Walk on Water
Catherine S. Ramírez
- The Creative Technologists of ADÁL窶冱 Out of Focus Nuyoricans and Ralph Ellison窶冱 Invisible Man
Matthew David Goodwin
- Indigenous and Western Sciences in Carlos Hernandez窶冱 The Assimilated Cuban窶冱 Guide to Quantum Santeria
Joy Sanchez-Taylor
- Conjurando poderes de existencia: Depictions of Sabidurías in the Latin American Speculative Fiction Series, Siempre Bruja
Vanessa J. Aguilar
- Utopic Rage: Transforming the Future Through Narratives of Black Feminine Monstrosity and Rage
Cassandra Scherr
- Grounding the Future 窶� Locating Senior窶冱 "Grung" Poetics in Tobias Buckell窶冱 Speculative Fiction
Jacinth Howard
- Recursive Origins and Distributed Cognitive Assemblages in Anthony Joseph窶冱 The African Origins of UFOs
Liam Wilby
- Alejandro Morales窶� The Rag Doll Plagues: Chican@/Latinx Futurism 窶� Between Intra-History and Utopia
Daniel Schreiner
- Prosthetic Visions, Bodily Horrors, and Decolonial Options in Madre
Márton Árva
- Amazofuturism, Indigenous Futurism, Afrofuturism and Sertãopunk in Brazilian Science Fiction: an Overview
Vítor Castelõs Gama with Alan de Sá and G.G. Diniz
- Chicanx Futurist Performances: Guillermo Gómez-Peña and the La Pocha Nostra Territorial Cartographies
Eduardo Barros-Grela
- Crossing Merfolk: mermaids and the Middle Passage in African Diasporic Culture
Jalondra A. Davis
- Brazilian Afrofuturism as a Social Technology
Patrick Brock
- Notes Towards Chicanafuturity / Dispatches from Northern Aztlán
Lysa Rivera
- Toward a Mexican American Futurism
David Bowles
- Some Kind of Tomorrow
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Part III
Asian, Middle East, and Other Futurisms
Let a hundred sinofuturisms bloom
Virginia L. Conn and Gabriele de Seta
- A Daoist Reading of Hao Jingfang窶冱 Vagabonds
Regina Kanyu Wang
- "In the future, no one is completely human": Posthuman Poetics in Sun Yung Shin窶冱 Unbearable Splendor and Franny Choi窶冱 Soft Science
Claire Stanford
- The New Gods: Merging the Ancient and the Contemporary of Egypt
Omar Houssien and Srﾄ疎n Tuniﾄ�
- For Different Tomorrows: Speculative Analogy, Korean Futurisms, and Yoon Ha Lee窶冱 "Ghostweight"
Stephen Hong Sohn
- Speculating Superintelligent Machines in the Indian Cyberculture
Goutam Karmakar and Somasree Sarkar
- Invasian, Takeover, and Disappearance: Post-Cold War Fear in Hong Kong SAR Sci-Fi Film
Kenny K. K. Ng
- Confucius No Say: Sino-Fi Fiction, Film, and Period Drama
Sheng-mei Ma
- From Sexual Desire to Personal Freedom: The Portrayal of Women and Their Rights in Chen Quifan窶冱 "G Stands for Goddess"
Frederike Schneider-Vielsäcker
- Rendezvous with Rama (Rajya): The Golden Past and the Antekaal Thesis in India窶冱 Anglophone Science Fiction
Sami Ahmad Khan
- Restart the Play: On Cyclicality and the Indian Woman in the Theatrical Future of C Sharp, C Blunt
Sheetala Bhat
- Speculative Hong Kong: Silky Potentials of a Living Science Fiction
Euan Auld and Casper Bruun Jensen
- Sophia Al-Maria, Gulf Futurism, and Architectural Temporalities
Shadya Radhi
Part IV
African and African American Futurisms
- Waste Time: Bodily Fluids and Afrofuturity
Sofia Samatar
- Genres of Resistance toward Revolution beyond the Human in Boots Riley窶冱 Sorry to Bother You
Rhya Moffitt
- Transformative Cyborgs: Unsettling Humanity in Nnedi Okorafor窶冱 Binti, The Book of Phoenix, and Lagoon
Alyssa D. Collins
- The African Roots of Nnedi Okorafor窶冱 Aliens and Cyborgs
Dustin Crowley
- Futurism(s) and Futuristic Themes in Modern African Poetry
Dike Okoro
- "They Say I窶冦 Hopeless": Jane McKeene Talks Back as Black Girls Do窶祢nterlocking Oppressions and Justina Ireland窶冱 Dread Nation
Damaris C. Dunn
- "the strength of no separation": A Poethics of Inseparability After the End of the World
Jess A. Goldberg
- Africanfuturism as Decolonial Dreamwork and Developmental Rebellion"
Jenna N. Hanchey
- "But I窶冦 right here": The Curious Case of Killmonger and the Failures of Utopian Desire in Marvel窶冱 Black Panther
Jasmine Moore
- Coming Together, "Free, Whole, Decolonized": Reading Black Feminisms in Tochi Onyebuchi窶冱 Riot Baby
P. Alexander Miles
- Engaging Second-Person Present 窶� Metafiction and Stereotypes in Violet Allen窶冱 "The Venus Effect"
Päivi Väätänen
- "Can You Feel It": Michael Jackson, Afrofuturism, and Building the Jacksonverse Natasha Bailey-Walker
- Afrofuturistic Storytelling in Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God"
Piper Kendrix Williams
- The Middle Passage to the Anthropocene: Eco-Humanist Futures in Black Women窶冱 Poetry
Marta Werbanowska
