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Afrofuturism: How Octavia Butler is Moving Us Forward
Octavia E. Butler was a visionary African American author, who imagined an alternate future for herself and our shared world. Through her writing, Butler challenged gender stereotypes in American fiction, white privilege in their narratives, and racism in her profession. She helped reshape the genre of science fiction by offering grounded, naturalistic stories in which characters like herself could flourish.
Comic-con Panel Discusses Afrofuturism in Black Panther, Octavia Butler's Works
"Black Panther" did much more than provide 8-year-olds with a sleek Halloween costume.Five months after its release, scholars are still meticulously dissecting Ryan Coogler's film in the hopes of gaining a thorough understanding of its impact on the black community. The 2018 San Diego Comic Convention panel "Beyond Wakanda: Intersectional Afrofuturism" analyzed "Black Panther" as well as the literary works of Octavia Butler, a black feminist and science fiction author, through the lens of Afrofuturism while encouraging audience engagement. Afrofuturism is a black aesthetic, philosophical and artistic movement that dates back to the mid-20th century ...
The Underground Railroad as Afrofuturism: Enslaved Blacks Who Imagined A Future And Used Technology To Reach The "Outer Spaces of Slavery".
This article employs the lens of Afrofuturism to address the Underground Railroad, detailing what imagination, tact, and technology, it took for fugitive Blacks to flee to the "outer spaces of slavery." Black enslavement was as terrifying as any exotic fictional tale, but it happened to real humans alienated in the "peculiar institution." Escaping slavery brought dreams to life, and at times must have felt like "magical realism," or an out-of-body experience, and the American North, Canada, Mexico, Africa, Europe, and free ...
The Afrofuturism of Black Panther
The ranks of the Afrofuturist creators have grown considerably over the last 25 years. They expanded in dramatic fashion with the release of the wildly successful film ''Black Panther,'' the first major superhero movie to feature a black director and writers and a majority black cast. The film's most important distinction is that it is told from an Afrocentric point of view; it breaks with the spirit of derision that has always saturated Hollywood films about Africans.

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