Afro-futurism--Black Speculative Art: Toni Morrison and Afro-futurism

https://afrofuturist.sites.grinnell.edu/key-writings/paul-gilroy-living-memory-a-meeting-with-toni-morrison/

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Key Afrofuturists

A key work in Afrocentrism was the 2000 anthology by Sheree Renée Thomas, titled Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora and then the followup Dark Matter: Reading the Bones in 2004. For her work she interviewed Octavia Butler (often considered one of the primary writers of Afrofuturist speculative fiction), the poet and writer Amiri Baraka (formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka), Sun Ra (composer and musician, proponent of a cosmic philosophy), Samuel Delany (an African American science fiction writer and literary critic who identified as gay), Marilyn Hacker (a Jewish poet and educator who identified as lesbian and who was married for a time to Delany), and others. 

Others sometimes included in Afrofuturism include Toni Morrison (novelist), Ishmael Reed (poet and essayist), and Janelle Monáe (songwriter, singer, actress, activist).

The 2018 movie, Black Panther, is an example of Afrofuturism. The story envisions a culture free of Eurocentric imperialism, a technologically advanced utopia.

Citation:  Lewis, Jone Johnson. (2020, August 27). Afrofuturism: Imagining an Afrocentric Future. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/afrofuturism-definition-4137845