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  title info:
    title: Black apocalypse
    sub title: afrofuturism at the end of the world
  name:
    name part: Ochieng' Nyongó, Tavia Amolo
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 116 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: 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 history and future 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 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.
  table of contents: The Virus Is the Alien -- The Changing Same -- A Reenchanted Cosmos?
  note: Tavia Nyong'o.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Race identity
  subject:
    topic: Afrofuturism
  subject:
    topic: Afropessimism (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Apocalypse in literature
  subject:
    topic: Black people in literature
  subject:
    topic: End of the world
  classification: NX652.A37 O29 2025
  classification: 700/.452996
  related item:
    title info:
      title: American studies now ; 16
  identifier: 0520388461
  identifier: 0520388488
  identifier: 9780520388468
  identifier: 9780520388482
  identifier: 9780520388499
  identifier: 2024032814
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240716
    record change date: 20250818203406.8
    record identifier: in00005620624