Call for Papers: "Afro-Futurism" (3/8/04; 4/9/04-4/10/04)
This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at
"(Dis)junctions: Romancing Heteroglossia", the University of California
at Riverside's 11th Annual Humanities Conference. The graduate student
conference takes place April 9-10, 2004. For more information, visit
http://english.ucr.edu/gsea/disjunctions
This panel is seeking papers that explore Afro-Futurist works, i.e.
works that significantly distort the present or the past with elements
of science fiction in order to interrogate or critique the experiences
and dilemmas of people of color. Well known examples of Afro-Futurism
include the literary works of Octavia Butler and Samuel R. Delany, the
mythologies constructed by Sun Ra, Drexciya, and Parliament-Funkadelic,
and the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Doze Green.
Contributors are invited to submit papers on any aspect of
Afro-Futurism or Afro-Futurist works including (but in no way limited
to) the following topics:
- Utopian and Dystopian tendencies in Afro-Futurist texts
- Afro-Futurism in art
- Afro-Futurism in relation to music (electro, drum and bass, jazz,
funk, hip-hop, dub, techno, jungle, garage, trip hop, etc.)
- Textual analyses of Afro-futurist literature, films, music, art, etc.
- Queer theory in relation to Afro-Futurism
- Afro-Futurism in film studies, television studies, and/or electronic
media such as video games
- Trauma theory in relation to Afro-Futurism
- Intersections of Cyborg theory and Afro-Futurism
- Representations of technology-savvy people of color, i.e. "the Black
Geek"
- Race and Cyberculture
- Afro-futurism in relation to Anime and Manga (i.e. soda commercials
which recast hip-hop icons as Voltron, the proliferation of
Mecha/Robots/Cyborgs within "urban" music's album art, etc.)
Abstracts no longer than 250 words should be e-mailed to:
hydrogenjukebox@9250x.com by March 8, 2004 (with the text in the body
of the message, not as an attachment). If sending by mail, please use
the following address:
Disjunctions
Department of English-40
UC Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521-0323
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