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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 340 pages). |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
Ohio University research in international studies. Africa series ; Number 96 |
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Research in international studies. Africa series ; Number 96.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Africanfuturism, development, and humanities -- Afrofuturist ecolinguistics : redefining the "science" of science fiction -- Birthing the future : metissage and cultural hybridity in Francophone African women's writing -- Child soldiers : re-inscribing the human in a culture of perpetual war -- Alienation, estrangement and dreams of departure : emigration and the politics of global inequality in (and out of) Francophone Africa -- 'We don't need no education' : alternative pedagogies and epistemologies in Bassek Ba Kobhio's Sango malo (1991) and Le silence de la foret (2004) -- Paradis artificiels : the lottery of global economies in Djibril Diop Mambety's Le franc, Imunga Ivanga's Dole, and Fadika Kramo-Lancine's Wariko -- Arguing against the shame of the state : Sony Labou Tansi's ecocriticial womanism and Gaiacene planetarity -- Conclusion : toward an Afrofuturist eco-humanist philosophy of experience. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Futurism (Literary movement) -- Africa, French-speaking.
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Futurism (Art) -- Africa, French-speaking.
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Science fiction, African -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction films -- Africa, French-speaking -- History and criticism.
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African literature (French) -- History and criticism.
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Ecoliterature.
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Humanism -- Africa, French-speaking.
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Africa, French-speaking -- Civilization -- 21st century.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Joslin, Isaac Vincent, 1982-. Afrofuturisms : Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions. First edition. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2023 viii, 340 pages Research in international studies.Africa series ; Number 96. 9780896803305 (DLC) 2022051158 |
| ISBN |
9780896803305 (print) |
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9780896805149 (electronic bk.) |
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