Download MP3: Hackett_Afrofuturism

This podcast episode is one in the series “Office Mates.” Join in with graduate students and office mates Claire Hackett and Yasemin Beykont as they discuss afrofuturism in the media.  The host, Claire Hackett, will go through how notable scholars and critics have defined the concept of afrofuturism.

Claire Hackett is a graduate student at UWM with a research interest in analyzing speculative fiction television narratives and their representations of race and gender.

References:

• Dery, Mark. “Black to the Future: Interview with Samuel R. Delany, Greg Tate and Tricia Rose” in Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994: 179-222.
• Yu Burnett, Joshua. “The Great Change and The Great Book: Nnedi Okorafor’s Postcolonial, Post-Apocalyptic Africa and the Promise of Black speculative Fiction.” Research in African Literatures 46 (2) 2016: 133-150.

Comments or questions? Email hackett7[at]uwm[dot]edu.