Journal | Il Tolomeo
Monographic journal issue | 23 | 2021
Research Article | Nnedi Okorafor: Trajectories of an African Futurism
Nnedi Okorafor: Trajectories of an African Futurism
- Teresa Colliva - Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Italia - email
Abstract
This article presents an analysis of the new category of Africanfuturism coined by the Nigerian American writer (or Naijamerican, as she defines herself) Nnedi Okorafor in 2019, after years of questions about the limits that the category of Afrofuturism has put over the receptions of her works. Okorafor felt the urgency to open this new horizon to better insist on the importance of stories and narratives profoundly rooted in the African continent, thus abandoning the Western models and canons of science fiction and creating new ways of looking towards the far future. Through the analysis of Okorafor’s novels (Who Fears Death?, Lagoon and Binti), interviews and posts on her blog, the article explores the potentialities of Okorafor’s speculative fiction to deal with technologies, traditions, cultures, social transformations, and how these issues inform a future Africa that could possibly be an entirely new world, in which the concept of ‘West’ and ‘colonialism’ do not have any meaning.
Submitted: Aug. 3, 2021 | Accepted: Oct. 29, 2021 | Published Dec. 20, 2021 | Language: it
Keywords Visions of the future • Africanfuturism • Nnedi Okorafor • Speculative fiction • Postcolonial science fiction
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dc.title |
Nnedi Okorafor: Trajectories of an African Futurism |
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dc.contributor.author |
Colliva Teresa |
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Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari |
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Research Article |
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it |
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http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/il-tolomeo/2021/1/nnedi-okorafor-traiettorie-di-un-futurismo-african/ |
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dc.description.abstract |
This article presents an analysis of the new category of Africanfuturism coined by the Nigerian American writer (or Naijamerican, as she defines herself) Nnedi Okorafor in 2019, after years of questions about the limits that the category of Afrofuturism has put over the receptions of her works. Okorafor felt the urgency to open this new horizon to better insist on the importance of stories and narratives profoundly rooted in the African continent, thus abandoning the Western models and canons of science fiction and creating new ways of looking towards the far future. Through the analysis of Okorafor’s novels (Who Fears Death?, Lagoon and Binti), interviews and posts on her blog, the article explores the potentialities of Okorafor’s speculative fiction to deal with technologies, traditions, cultures, social transformations, and how these issues inform a future Africa that could possibly be an entirely new world, in which the concept of ‘West’ and ‘colonialism’ do not have any meaning. |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Il Tolomeo |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Vol. 23 | December 2021 |
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dc.issued |
2021-12-20 |
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dc.dateAccepted |
2021-10-29 |
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dc.dateSubmitted |
2021-08-03 |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
2499-5975 |
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2021/23/022 |
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dc.peer-review |
yes |
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dc.subject |
Africanfuturism |
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dc.subject |
Africanfuturism |
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dc.subject |
Nnedi Okorafor |
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dc.subject |
Nnedi Okorafor |
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dc.subject |
Postcolonial science fiction |
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dc.subject |
Postcolonial science fiction |
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dc.subject |
Speculative fiction |
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dc.subject |
Speculative fiction |
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dc.subject |
Visions of the future |
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dc.subject |
Visions of the future |
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