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Correlation between Afrofuturism and science fiction in Space is the Place: praxis or paradox?
| dc.contributor.author | Fofie, Gloria Adjeiwaa | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-07T10:28:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-05-07T10:28:32Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-06-29 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In this paper, I use the culture studies approach to investigate how themes such as the space age, psychedelia and the creation of a post-apocalyptic black colony in the film Space is the Place (Coney 1972), interweave with Darko Suvin's (1974) concept of cognitive estrangement and novum. I specifically study how these relate to science fiction, with the goal of subverting the stereotype of blackness as uncivilised and Luddite. I propose to critically review the general categorization of the film as Afrofuturist and argue that what is positioned in the film as a novelty and salvation is, in fact, constructed in a problematic way. As such, positioning the film just as Afrofuturist, as demonstrated, may contradict the genre’s goals. Instead, I follow David Seed’s proposal to use an interdisciplinary reading method for film analysis based on deconstructing the relation of the film within the two framings: Science fiction and Afrofuturism. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.34632/diffractions.2023.11473 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2183-2188 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/44910 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Afrofuturism | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Apocalypse | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Psychedelic | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Science fiction (sci-fi/sf) | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Space age | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Technology | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Correlation between Afrofuturism and science fiction in Space is the Place: praxis or paradox? | pt_PT |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 70 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.issue | 6 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 43 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | Diffractions | pt_PT |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | article | pt_PT |