The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms delivers a new, inclusive examination of science fiction, from close analyses of single texts to large-scale movements, providing readers with decolonized models of the future, including print, media, race, gender and social justice.
This comprehensive overview of the field explores representations of possible futures arising from non-Western cultures and ethnic histories that disrupt the “imperial gaze”. In four parts, The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms considers the look of futures from the margins, foregrounding the issues of Indigenous groups, racial, ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities, and any people whose stakes in the global order of envisioning futures are generally constrained due to the mechanics of our contemporary world.
The book extends current discussions in the area, looking at cutting-edge developments in the discipline of science fiction and diverse futurisms as a whole. Offering a dynamic mix of approaches and expansive perspectives, this volume will appeal to academics and researchers seeking to orient their own interventions into broader contexts.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms delivers a new, inclusive examination of science fiction, from close analyses of single texts to large-scale movements, providing readers with decolonized models of the future, including print, media, race, gender and social justice.
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"At the college or university level, The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms is a standalone text excellent for a Directed Study proposal of CoFuturisms at any undergraduate or graduate level as well as an extraordinarily appropriate text for World Literature or other intercultural and international studies... [ the] entire Handbook may be considered a tool for sociopolitical as well as academic revolutionary thought, a disruption of disempowering assumptions and Eurocentric historicisms to suggest, implant and nurture the potential for transformative self-empowerment and culturally sensitive revolutionary thought."
--Alexis Brooks de Vita, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
Introduction to CoFuturisms
Taryne Jade Taylor
Part I
Indigenous Futurisms
The Future Imaginary
Jason Edward Lewis
Lands of Chemical Death: Toxic Survivance in Bunky Echo-Hawks Gas Masks
as Medicine and Mishas Red Spider White Web
Stina Attebery
Water, Fire, Earth: Darcie Little Badgers "Ku Ko Né Ä" Series
Kristina Andrea Baudemann
Contact, Rationalism, and Indigenous Queer Natures in Ellen Van Neervens
"Water"
Arlie Alizzi
Wayfinding Pasifikafuturism: An Indigenous Science Fiction Vision of the
Ocean in Space
Gina Cole
Creating Collaborative Digital Poetic Worlds in the Video Poetry of Heid
Erdrich and Kathy Jetñil-Kiijiner
Kasey Jones-Matrona
Indigenous Young Adult Dystopias
Graham J. Murphy
Centering Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Futurisms
Channette Romero
Blackfella Futurism: Speculative Fiction Grounded in Grassroots Sovereignty
Politics
Mykaela Saunders
Anthologizing the Indigenous Environmental Imaginary: Moonshot Volume 3 and
Ecocritical Futurisms
Conrad Scott
Speculative Landscapes of Contemporary North American Indigenous Fiction
Julia Siepak
Russell Bates (Kiowa): Eco-SF and Indigenous Futurisms
Patrick Sharp
Welcome to the World of Tomorrow: Terrestrial Sovereignty and Decolonial
Apocalypse in Indigenous Futurist Writing
Anne Stewart
Coding Potawatomi Cosmologies: Elements of Bodwéwadmi Futurisms
Blaire Morseau
(Re)writing and (Re)beading: Understanding Indigenous Womens Roles in the
Creation of Indigenous Futurisms
Emily C. Van Alst
Okinawa Q (an Uckinanchu Futurism): Okinawans Rectify the Unbalanced View of
Nature Through Tokusatsu Television and Film
Kenrick H. Kamiya-Yoshida
Part II
Latinx Futurisms
The Economic Migrant and the Specter of Permanence in Why Cybraceros?, The
Rag Doll Plagues, and Walk on Water
Catherine S. Ramírez
The Creative Technologists of ADÁLs Out of Focus Nuyoricans and Ralph
Ellisons Invisible Man
Matthew David Goodwin
Indigenous and Western Sciences in Carlos Hernandezs The Assimilated Cubans
Guide to Quantum Santeria
Joy Sanchez-Taylor
Conjurando poderes de existencia: Depictions of Sabidurías in the Latin
American Speculative Fiction Series, Siempre Bruja
Vanessa J. Aguilar
Utopic Rage: Transforming the Future Through Narratives of Black Feminine
Monstrosity and Rage
Cassandra Scherr
Grounding the Future Locating Seniors "Grung" Poetics in Tobias Buckells
Speculative Fiction
Jacinth Howard
Recursive Origins and Distributed Cognitive Assemblages in Anthony Josephs
The African Origins of UFOs
Liam Wilby
Alejandro Morales The Rag Doll Plagues: Chican@/Latinx Futurism Between
Intra-History and Utopia
Daniel Schreiner
Prosthetic Visions, Bodily Horrors, and Decolonial Options in Madre
Márton Árva
Amazofuturism, Indigenous Futurism, Afrofuturism and Sertãopunk in Brazilian
Science Fiction: an Overview
Vítor Castelõs Gama with Alan de Sá and G.G. Diniz
Chicanx Futurist Performances: Guillermo Gómez-Peña and the La Pocha Nostra
Territorial Cartographies
Eduardo Barros-Grela
Crossing Merfolk: mermaids and the Middle Passage in African Diasporic
Culture
Jalondra A. Davis
Brazilian Afrofuturism as a Social Technology
Patrick Brock
Notes Towards Chicanafuturity / Dispatches from Northern Aztlán
Lysa Rivera
Toward a Mexican American Futurism
David Bowles
Some Kind of Tomorrow
irene lara silva
Part III
Asian, Middle East, and Other Futurisms
Let a hundred sinofuturisms bloom
Virginia L. Conn and Gabriele de Seta
A Daoist Reading of Hao Jingfangs Vagabonds
Regina Kanyu Wang
"In the future, no one is completely human": Posthuman Poetics in Sun Yung
Shins Unbearable Splendor and Franny Chois Soft Science
Claire Stanford
The New Gods: Merging the Ancient and the Contemporary of Egypt
Omar Houssien and Sran Tuni
For Different Tomorrows: Speculative Analogy, Korean Futurisms, and Yoon Ha
Lees "Ghostweight"
Stephen Hong Sohn
Speculating Superintelligent Machines in the Indian Cyberculture
Goutam Karmakar and Somasree Sarkar
Invasian, Takeover, and Disappearance: Post-Cold War Fear in Hong Kong SAR
Sci-Fi Film
Kenny K. K. Ng
Confucius No Say: Sino-Fi Fiction, Film, and Period Drama
Sheng-mei Ma
From Sexual Desire to Personal Freedom: The Portrayal of Women and Their
Rights in Chen Quifans "G Stands for Goddess"
Frederike Schneider-Vielsäcker
Rendezvous with Rama (Rajya): The Golden Past and the Antekaal Thesis in
Indias Anglophone Science Fiction
Sami Ahmad Khan
Restart the Play: On Cyclicality and the Indian Woman in the Theatrical
Future of C Sharp, C Blunt
Sheetala Bhat
Speculative Hong Kong: Silky Potentials of a Living Science Fiction
Euan Auld and Casper Bruun Jensen
Sophia Al-Maria, Gulf Futurism, and Architectural Temporalities
Shadya Radhi
Part IV
African and African American Futurisms
Waste Time: Bodily Fluids and Afrofuturity
Sofia Samatar
Genres of Resistance toward Revolution beyond the Human in Boots Rileys
Sorry to Bother You
Rhya Moffitt
Transformative Cyborgs: Unsettling Humanity in Nnedi Okorafors Binti, The
Book of Phoenix, and Lagoon
Alyssa D. Collins
The African Roots of Nnedi Okorafors Aliens and Cyborgs
Dustin Crowley
Futurism(s) and Futuristic Themes in Modern African Poetry
Dike Okoro
"They Say Im Hopeless": Jane McKeene Talks Back as Black Girls
DoInterlocking Oppressions and Justina Irelands Dread Nation
Damaris C. Dunn
"the strength of no separation": A Poethics of Inseparability After the End
of the World
Jess A. Goldberg
Africanfuturism as Decolonial Dreamwork and Developmental Rebellion"
Jenna N. Hanchey
"But Im right here": The Curious Case of Killmonger and the Failures of
Utopian Desire in Marvels Black Panther
Jasmine Moore
Coming Together, "Free, Whole, Decolonized": Reading Black Feminisms in Tochi
Onyebuchis Riot Baby
P. Alexander Miles
Engaging Second-Person Present Metafiction and Stereotypes in Violet
Allens "The Venus Effect"
Päivi Väätänen
"Can You Feel It": Michael Jackson, Afrofuturism, and Building the
Jacksonverse Natasha Bailey-Walker
Afrofuturistic Storytelling in Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God"
Piper Kendrix Williams
The Middle Passage to the Anthropocene: Eco-Humanist Futures in Black Womens
Poetry
Marta Werbanowska
Taryne Jade Taylor is Advanced Assistant Professor of Science Fiction at Florida Atlantic University. Her research focuses on the politics of representation in speculative fiction, particularly feminist science fiction and diasporic Latinx Futurisms. She firmly believes science fiction and fantasy build paths to a better, inclusive future, which is why her research focuses on diversity, inclusion, and justice as presented in the secondary worlds of the fantastic.
Isiah Lavender III is Sterling-Goodman Professor of English at the University of Georgia, where he researches and teaches courses in African American literature and science fiction. He is the author/editor of six books, including Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement (2019) and the interview collection Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson (2023). He is currently completing the first draft of Future Pasts: Race and Speculative Fictions. Finally, he edits for Extrapolation.
Grace L. Dillon (Anishinaabe) is Professor in the Indigenous Nations Studies Program at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate course on a range of interests including Native American and Indigenous studies, science fiction, Indigenous cinema, popular culture, race and social justice, and early modern literature. She is the editor of Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction (2012) and Hive of Dreams: Contemporary Science Fiction from the Pacific Northwest (2003).
Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay is Associate Professor in Global Culture Studies at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo. He is Principal Investigator of the European Research Council project CoFutures: Pathways to Possible Presents as well as Principal Investigator of the Norwegian Research Council project Science Fictionality in addition to running the Holodeck, a state-of-the-art Games Research Lab at the University of Oslo.
