Author : Tavia Nyong'O
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520388488
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Book Synopsis Black Apocalypse by : Tavia Nyong'O
Download or read book Black Apocalypse written by Tavia Nyong'O and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2025 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juxtaposing the world-building of afrofuturism and the world-negating of afropessimism to show how both movements have offered us critical resources of hope. Science fiction imagines aliens and global crises as world-unifying events, both a threat and promise for the future. Black Apocalypse is an introduction to the past and present of black engagement with speculative futures. From Octavia Butler to W.E.B. Du Bois to Sun Ra, Tavia Nyong'o shows that the end of the world is crucial to afrofuturism and reframes the binary of afropessimism and afrofuturism to explore their similarities. Interweaving black trans, queer, and feminist theories, Nyong'o examines the social, technological, and existential threats facing our species and reflects on shifting anxieties and hopes for the future. Exploring the apocalypse in movies, art, literature, and music, this book considers the endless afterlives of slavery and inequality and revives the radical black imagination to envision the future of blackness. Black Apocalypse argues that black aesthetics take us to the edge of this world and into the next.