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SciFi Beyond the West: Futurity in African and Asian Contexts 💫 Symposium July 2019 at @SOAS 💫 Stream at @LSFRC_ September 2020 💫 Special issue out now!
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Joined April 2019
The special issue is live! Read about how authors and creators from postcolonial contexts expand #scifi and use the future as a realm of creativity and critique. https://t.co/d7KDHz4xY6
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Our previous special issue of Comparative Critical Studies looks at what it means to imagine and anticipate the future from beyond the West. Find the full listing of articles, as well as an introduction from editors @TasnimQ and @JulyBlalack, here:
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Honoured to have contributed to this @SfBeyond special edition, reflecting on the legal personhood and the posthuman in environmental africanfuturism #scifi #lawandliterature
In her paper ‘Poison Rainbows,’ @tswilkes21 considers how Africanfuturist writing can enrich environmental law as both grapple with the #posthuman in an age of ai and extinctions https://t.co/1S8HcsxtIv
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Can new interpretations of #yalit and #scifi expand the genre beyond its conventional boundaries? 💫Read how author and scholar @sundialgirl answers these questions based on Philippine literature: 🌟 https://t.co/DhLLoeTdwA 💫 [@declshorthand @PittLitProgram @EdinburghUP]
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Science fiction written specifically for young readers has had difficulty in establishing itself as a separate genre from fantasy, especially since there is a blurred notion of what constitutes...
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Read about how the gothic and the futuristic merge to make @YugenBlakrok's music a time-bending vehicle in this paper by @ra_pius of @ZASBasel @UniBasel_en
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This article explores the work of South African hip-hop artist Yugen Blakrok from an Afrofuturist perspective with a distinct focus on the Gothic, using Mark Fisher’s concept of sonic hauntology. The...
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I have an article in this! Spatiality and protest and the future recent anglophone SF has imagined for Delhi.
The special issue is live! Read about how authors and creators from postcolonial contexts expand #scifi and use the future as a realm of creativity and critique. https://t.co/d7KDHz4xY6
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We draw from the work of... @OctaviasBrood @adriennemaree @TadeThompson @Nalo_Hopkinson @PeninsulaMovie @markdery @NisiShawl @HBlasim @phamthikang @JWhitehead204 @botbifo @SaraNAhmed @snarkbat ....among others
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Congratulations @TasnimQ and @JulyBlalack! So much hard work and it looks amazing!! Looking forward to reading the full issue that emerged from the wonderful @SfBeyond. 💫🌟💥
The special issue is live! Read about how authors and creators from postcolonial contexts expand #scifi and use the future as a realm of creativity and critique. https://t.co/d7KDHz4xY6
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New article out now and free to access! A reading of future ruins imagined in Iraq+100 by @commapress, thinking through different chronologies & poetics of ruination and how they spark sentiments of 'solastalgia'. Part of new special issue by @SfBeyond 💫 https://t.co/4DZBXgvt64
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This article explores two tales of future ruination from the collection Iraq+100 (2016): Diaa Jubaili’s ‘The Worker’ and Hassan Blasim’s ‘The Gardens of Babylon’. These stories, contained in what has...
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This is finally out 😍 inspired by my presentations at @SfBeyond and @LSFRC_ conferences in 2019 (yeah before covid, feeling like a century ago...). Many thanks to @TasnimQ @JulyBlalack who made this special issue possible despite the pandemic!
How did a #dystopian universe become the 'Bible' for survival in under capitalism? @LyuGuangzhao examines the reception of Liu Cixin’s Three-Body trilogy beyond the literary realm in post-socialist China
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Will the future of Delhi being altered after protests against the discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Act? Aishwarya Subramanian offers a view of the city's shifting borders through #scifi
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How did a #dystopian universe become the 'Bible' for survival in under capitalism? @LyuGuangzhao examines the reception of Liu Cixin’s Three-Body trilogy beyond the literary realm in post-socialist China
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Liu Cixin’s Three-Body trilogy has become more than a work of science fiction. The Dark Forest discourse Liu proposes in the stories has reached beyond the domain of literature, becoming a broader...
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In her paper ‘Poison Rainbows,’ @tswilkes21 considers how Africanfuturist writing can enrich environmental law as both grapple with the #posthuman in an age of ai and extinctions https://t.co/1S8HcsxtIv
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Oil spills in the Niger Delta have been at the centre of both legal and literary imaginings as among the most acute examples of modern environmental degradation. In her novel Lagoon, Nnedi Okorafor...
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In this beautiful essay by @annie_webster13, literary visions of Iraq in 2103 are read against the classical Arabic trope of the aṭlāl and the recent phenomenon of "solastalgia" in the Anthropocene. #scifi #worldlit
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This article explores two tales of future ruination from the collection Iraq+100 (2016): Diaa Jubaili’s ‘The Worker’ and Hassan Blasim’s ‘The Gardens of Babylon’. These stories, contained in what has...
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And finally, my chapter on postcolonial science fiction, cyborgs, goddesses and forms of indigenous knowledge as colonial resistance in @GhoshAmitav's The Calcutta Chromosome was published in @Palgrave's book Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction
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