SciFi Beyond the West: Futurity in African and Asian Contexts ๐ซ Symposium July 2019 at @SOAS ๐ซ Stream at @LSFRC_ September 2020 ๐ซ Special issue out now!
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
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: https://t.co/8DUa6lSRMu
Honoured to have contributed to this @SfBeyond special edition, reflecting on the legal personhood and the posthuman in environmental africanfuturism
#scifi#lawandliterature
Can new interpretations of #yalit and #scifi expand the genre beyond its conventional boundaries? ๐ซRead how author and scholar @sundialgirl answers these questions based on Philippine literature: ๐https://t.co/DhLLoeTdwA ๐ซ [@declshorthand@PittLitProgram@EdinburghUP]
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 https://t.co/Cy9NT7Fbwc
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 https://t.co/ZxTD3ruNuu
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
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. ๐ซ๐๐ฅ
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 ๐ซ
https://t.co/4DZBXgvt64
This is finally out ๐ 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 Cixinโs Three-Body trilogy beyond the literary realm in post-socialist China https://t.co/Hmm4wr9CCH
In her paper โPoison Rainbows,โ @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
In this beautiful essay by @annie_webster13, literary visions of Iraq in 2103 are read against the classical Arabic trope of the aแนญlฤl and the recent phenomenon of "solastalgia" in the Anthropocene. #scifi#worldlit https://t.co/JwIMe3ZE5c
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
https://t.co/QZVxGldpcs