The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms (Routledge Literature Handbooks)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction to CoFuturisms
	Defining CoFuturisms
	Why CoFuturisms?
	Handbook Structure and Theoretical Underpinning Explanation
	Works Cited
Part I: Indigenous Futurisms
	Chapter 1: The Future Imaginary
		The Future Is Reaching for Us
		Introduction
			Genealogy
		Conceptual Foundation
			Imaginaries
			Futurisms
			Emergent Collaboration
		Precedents and Resonates
			The Future Imaginary
			Indigenous Futures
		Strategies
			Ask Our Own Questions
			Revise Our Sense of What Is Possible
			Assert Our Claims on the Future
			Romanticize Our Sovereignty
			Practice New Futures Together
		The Future Is Reaching for Us
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 2: “Lands of Chemical Death”: Toxic Survivance in Bunky Echo-Hawk’s Gas Masks as Medicine and Misha’s Red Spider White Web
		Witnessing in Gas Masks as Medicine
		Unmapping in Red Spider White Web
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 3: Water, Fire, Earth: Darcie Little Badger’s “Ku Ko Né Ä” Series
		Darkness in Nevada: Weaponizing Resources in “The Orphan of Greenridge (Water)”
		When the World Goes Dark: Survival of the Fittest in “How to Use Your Visor Evacuation Helper to Escape an Active Warzone (Fire)”
		After Dark: “Making Faces (Earth)”
		Conclusion: A ‘Common Pot’ of Hopeful Futures
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 4: Contact, Rationalism, and Indigenous Queer Natures in Ellen Van Neerven’s “Water”
		Theorizing Contact
		Contact and Queer Seduction in “Water”
		Works Cited
	Chapter 5: Wayfinding Pasifikafuturism: An Indigenous Science Fiction Vision of the Ocean in Space
		Introduction
		Witi Ihimaera Steers the Doctrine of Discovery into the Māori Space-Time Continuum of Te Kore
			A Postcolonial Navigation of Space
			Ihimaera’s Didactic Game
			Oceanic Metaphor: Wayfinding in Space
		Envisioning the Dream of the Indigenous Woman in Oceanic Space in Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti
			An Indigenous Woman in Space
			Oceanic Space
			Privileging Indigenous Culture and Reenlisting the Science of Indigeneity
		Conclusion
		Works Cited
	Chapter 6: Creating Collaborative Digital Poetic Worlds in the Video Poetry of Heid Erdrich and Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner
		Defining Collaborative Digital Poetic Worlds
		Heid Erdrich’s “Pre-Occupied”
		Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner’s “Rise: From One Island to Another”
		Conclusion
		Works Cited
	Chapter 7: Indigenous Young Adult Dystopias
		The Legacy of Stolen Generations
		Survivance and Indigenous YA Dystopias
		A Returning to Ourselves
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 8: Centering Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Futurisms
		Genre Matters
		Healing Through Expansive Sciences and Ceremonies
		The Erotic “And/As” Revolution
		Travelling Through 2S/Indigiqueer Temporalities
		Conclusion
		Works Cited
	Chapter 9: Blackfella Futurism: Speculative Fiction Grounded in Grassroots Sovereignty Politics
		“Blackfella” as Political Terminology
		“Blackfella” as Grassroots Sovereignty Politics
		Criteria for the Blackfella Futurism Genre
		Non-Blackfella Futurism Texts
		Country, Community, and Culture in the Blackfella Futurism Canon, 1990–2020
		Genre Trends for Country, Community and Culture in Blackfella Futurism
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 10: Anthologizing the Indigenous Environmental Imaginary: Moonshot Volume 3 and Ecocritical Futurisms
		Moonshot and the Indigenous Environmental Imaginary
		Indigenous Ecocritical Futurisms and the Crisis of Extractivism
		Ecocritical Futurisms and Science in the Indigenous SF Anthology
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 11: Speculative Landscapes of Contemporary North American Indigenous Fiction
		Ecological Grief and the Spatial Poetics of Hope in Future Home of the Living God
		Sites of Extraction in The Marrow Thieves
		The Energy Industry, Infrastructure, and Apocalypse in Moon of the Crusted Snow
		Speculative Landscapes and Indigenous Futurities
		Acknowledgment
		Works Cited
	Chapter 12: Russell Bates (Kiowa): Eco-SF and Indigenous Futurisms
		Eco-SF and Settler Fantasies of the “Indian”
		Russell Bates and Eco-SF
		“Rite of Encounter”: Native Apocalypse and Survivance
		Russell Bates Reimagines the Final Frontier
		Note
		Works Cited
	Chapter 13: Welcome to the World of Tomorrow!: Building the Decolonial Apocalypse in Indigenous Futurist Writing
		Decolonial Infrastructures
		The Sovereign Earth
		Becoming Human
		Note
		Works Cited
	Chapter 14: Coding Potawatomi Cosmologies: Elements of Bodwéwadmi Futurisms
		Coding
		Bodwéwadmi Futurisms
		Story Work
		Neshnabé Ecology
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 15: (Re)writing and (Re)beading: Understanding Indigenous Women’s Roles in the Creation of Indigenous Futurisms
		Introduction
		Quillwork
		Beadwork
		Theoretical Background
		Contemporary Beadwork
		Indigenous Women Artists
		Discussion
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 16: “Okinawa Q” (an Uchinanchū Futurism): Okinawans Rectify the Japanese Unbalanced View of Nature Through Tokusatsu Television and Film
		Notes
		Works Cited
Part II: Latinx Futurisms
	Chapter 17: The Economic Migrant and the Specter of Permanence in Why Cybraceros?, The Rag Doll Plagues, and Walk on Water
		The Economic Migrant
		The Bracero
			Why Braceros?
			Why Cybraceros?
			The Rag Doll Plagues
			Walk on Water
		Conclusion: Essential and Still Excluded
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 18: The Creative Technologists of ADÁL’s Out of Focus Nuyoricans and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 19: Indigenous and Western Sciences in Carlos Hernandez’s The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 20: Conjurando poderes de existencia: Depictions of Sabidurías in the Latin American Speculative Fiction Series Siempre Bruja
		Introduction
		Speculative Hechizos/Spells
		Cognitive Dissonance
		Conjuring Existence: Fugitivity and Travel
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 21: Utopic Rage: Transforming the Future Through Narratives of Black Feminine Monstrosity and Rage
		Visible Rage, Politicized Rage
		Trapped by Love and Rage: Using Monstrosity to Render Rage’s Work Invisible
		Monstrous Rage: Transforming the Future Through Black Rage
		Conclusion: The Utopic Potential of Rage
		Note
		Works Cited
	Chapter 22: Grounding the Future: Locating Senior’s “Grung” Poetics in Tobias Buckell’s Speculative Fiction
		Olive Senior and Grung Poetics–Infused SF
		Grung Poetics in Tobias Buckell’s Speculative Fiction
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 23: Recursive Origins and Distributed Cognitive Assemblages in Anthony Joseph’s The African Origins of UFOs
		Performance as Distributed Cognitive Assemblages
		Becoming with the Landscape
		Conclusion: Memories as Panspermic Dust
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 24: Alejandro Morales’s The Rag Doll Plagues: Chican@/Latinx Futurism—Between Intra-History and Utopia
		Online Interview with Alejandro Morales (10 December 2020)
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 25: Prosthetic Visions, Bodily Horrors, and Decolonial Options in Madre
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 26: Afrofuturism, Amazofuturism, Indigenous Futurism, and Sertãopunk in Brazilian Science Fiction: An Overview
		Afrofuturism
		Amazofuturism
		Indigenous Futurism
		Sertãopunk
		Final Remarks
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 27: Chicanx Futurist Performances: Guillermo Gómez-Peña and the La Pocha Nostra Territorial Cartographies
		Chicanxfuturism and Gómez-Peña
		Chicanxfuturism and La Pocha Nostra
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 28: Crossing Merfolk: Mermaids and the Middle Passage in African Diasporic Culture
		Crossing Merfolk and the Homo Aquaticus
		Crossing Merfolk and the Aqua-Afrotopia
		Crossing Merfolk and the Sacred
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 29: Brazilian Afrofuturism as a Social Technology
		Historical context
		Afrofuturism in Brazil
		Brazilian Intersectionality: A Few Case Studies
		Concluding Remarks
		Acknowledgment
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 30: Notes Towards Chicanafuturity/Dispatches from Northern Aztlán
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 31: Toward a Mexican American Futurism
		Mesoamerican Futurism
		Mexican American Futurism
		Works Cited
	Chapter 32: Some Kind of Tomorrow
		Note
		Works Cited
Part III: Asian, Middle East, and Other Futurisms
	Chapter 33: Let a Hundred Sinofuturisms Bloom
		Sinofuturism: A Brief Genealogy
		Evolutionary and Revolutionary Futurisms
		Science-Fictional Articulations of Chinese Futures
		Sinofuturists: Chinese Futures in Contemporary Art
		Conclusion: A Relationship
		Note
		Works Cited
	Chapter 34: A Daoist Reading of Hao Jingfang’s Vagabonds
		Hao Jingfang and Vagabonds
		Daoism in Contemporary China
		Daoism in Vagabonds
		The Yin-Yang Paradigm in Vagabonds
		Mars Ecosystem Transformation Project
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		Works Cited
	Chapter 35: “In the Future, No One Is Completely Human”: Posthuman Poetics in Sun Yung Shin’s Unbearable Splendor and Franny Choi’s Soft Science
		Cyber Poetics and the Illusion of Unraced Technology
		Sun Yung Shin and Destabilizing the “Lyric I”
		Franny Choi and Cyborg Poetics
		“In the Future, No One Is Completely Human”: Dismantling the Category of the Human
		Works Cited
	Chapter 36: The New Gods: Merging the Ancient and the Contemporary of Egypt
		Introduction
		Context: the (Post-)Arab Spring and the World of Advertising
		Pop Art, Consumerism, Arabfuturism, and Contemporary Interpretations of Egyptian Heritage
		Ancient Deities in Popular Fiction and Fantasy Literature
		The New Gods
		Final Remarks
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 37: For Different Tomorrows: Speculative Analogy, Korean Futurisms, and Yoon Ha Lee’s “Ghostweight”
		The Burden of “Ghostweight”
		Speculative Analogy: “Ghostweight” and Korean Futurism
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 38: Speculating Robot in the Indian Technoculture: Claiming the Future through Select Indian Science Fiction Films
		Introduction
		Indian SF and Unique Historicity
		Robot and Sexed Body
		Horrors of Technology and SF
		Robotics and Ethics
		Capturing the Anticipation of Mass
		Works Cited
	Chapter 39: Invasion, Takeover, and Disappearance: Post–Cold War Fear in Hong Kong SAR Sci-Fi Film
		Lost in Urban Space and Social Movements
		Lost in Space, Lost in Transition
		CODA: Beginning at the End of the World
		Acknowledgment
		Works Cited
	Chapter 40: Confucius No Say: Sino-Fi Web Fiction, Film, and Period Drama
		Old Nezha for New China
		New Nezha in The Wandering Earth
		Sino-Fi and Futurism
		Works Cited
	Chapter 41: From Sexual Desire to Personal Freedom: Women and Their Rights in Chen Qiufan’s “G Stands for Goddess”
		Exploring Alternative Gender Roles Outside of Chinese Norms
		Sexual Desire and the Right to/over Female Bodies
		Coda: A Long Road to Autonomous Femininity
		Works Cited
	Chapter 42: The Antekaal Awakens: Rendezvous with Rama (Rajya) and the Golden Past in India’s Anglophone Science Fiction
		The Empire Strikes Back: Rashtra, Itihasa, and Bazaar
		Return of the King: Rama Rajya and Golden Past
		The Antekaal Awakens: Before and Against Time, End-of-Time, and Eternal Time
		Acknowledgments
		Works Cited
	Chapter 43: “Restart the Play”: On Cyclicality and the “Indian Woman” in the Theatrical Future of C Sharp C Blunt
		Acknowledgments
		Note
		Works Cited
	Chapter 44: Speculative Hong Kong: Silky Potentials of a Living Science Fiction
		That’s Insanely Cyberpunk
		“Be Water”: Speculative Propositions beyond the Perfect Dictionary
		Of Silk and Punk
		Silky Emergenc(i)es
		Alternative Histories, Alternative Futures
		“A Project to Be Enacted”
		Hong Kong, Still Floating
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 45: Sophia Al-Maria, Gulf Futurism, and Architectural Temporalities
		Introduction
		Futurisms and Gulf Futurism
		Bedouin Nostalgia
		Architectural Examples of Gulf Futurism
		Conclusion
		Note
		Works Cited
Part IV: African and African American Futurisms
	Chapter 46: Waste Time: Bodily Fluids and Afrofuturity
		Sprawled
		Everybody’s Scum
		The Vivid Homage of Spit
		Mad Max
		A Mound of Mingled Flesh
		Transhuman(t)
		Breath
		Acknowledgments
		Works Cited
	Chapter 47: Genres of Resistance toward Revolution beyond the Human in Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You
		It’s a Precarious Life
		Genres of Resistance
		Beyond the Human
		Note
		Works Cited
	Chapter 48: Transformative Cyborgs: Unsettling Humanity in Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti, The Book of Phoenix, and Lagoon
		The Posthuman Embodied Cyborg
		Cyborg Conventions
		The Informatics of the Black Cyborg
		Note
		Works Cited
	Chapter 49: The African Roots of Nnedi Okorafor’s Aliens and Cyborgs
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 50: Futurism(s) and Futuristic Themes in Modern African Poetry
		Traditionalists and the African Destiny
		Pan-Africanism/Futurity and African Philosophy
		Futurist Themes and Familial Memories
		Conclusion
		Works Cited
	Chapter 51: “They Say I’m Hopeless”: Jane McKeene Talks Back as Black Girls Do—Interlocking Oppressions and Justina Ireland’s Dread Nation
		Theorizing Dread Nation
		Miss Preston’s Negro Girls and Real-Life Black Girls
		Black Girl Shambler, We See You
		Dread Nation Imitating the Lives of Black Girls Historically and Presently
		Toward Black Girl Magic in SF and Schools
		Note
		Works Cited
	Chapter 52: “The Strength of No Separation”: A Poethics of Inseparability After the End of the World
		What if Space Is Not the Place?
		Poethics, Breathing, Loss
		Practicing Alternative Futurism, Now
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 53: Africanfuturism as Decolonial Dreamwork and Developmental Rebellion
		The Afronauts and Alternative Developmental Trajectories
		Centering Africanfuturism in Africa
		Africanfuturism Against and Beyond Developmental Coloniality
			Radical Desire Against Neoliberal Capitalism
			Environmental Connection Against Dystopia
			Alien Technology Against Colonialism
			Alternative Ontologies Against a Foreclosure of Life
		Dreaming Developmental Rebellion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 54: “But I’m Right Here”: The Curious Case of Killmonger and the Failures of Utopian Desire in Marvel’s Black Panther
		T’Challa as the Figurehead for the Dream
		The Dream’s Implications: Afro-Atlantic Thought, Modernity, and Utopia
		Killmonger’s Afropessimism, Utopian failure
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 55: Coming Together, “Free, Whole, Decolonized”: Reading Black Feminisms in Tochi Onyebuchi’s Riot Baby
		Writing Black Liberation through Afrofuturism
		Reading Riot Baby as a Black Feminist Project
		Saving Superwoman—Representing Black Women in Riot Baby
		“Freedom Dreaming” Through the End of the World
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 56: Engaging Second-Person Present: Metafiction and Stereotypes in Violet Allen’s “The Venus Effect”
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 57: “Can You Feel It”: Michael Jackson, Afrofuturism, and Building the Jacksonverse
		The Beginning and the End of the Jacksonverse
		Race-Swapping in the Jacksonverse
		Repairing the Past in the Jacksonverse
		Exile and the Epic Journey in the Jacksonverse
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 58: Afrofuturistic Storytelling in Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God
		Afrofuturism and Hurston
		Africa in Our Dreams: Kossola
		Nanny’s Sermon
		Porch Magic: Janie
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 59: The Middle Passage to the Anthropocene: Eco-Humanist Futures in Black Women’s Poetry
		Looking Back to Look Forward: Afrofuturism in “We’re Going to Mars”
		A Black Feminist Passage to After the End of the World
		From “Voyage through Death” to Life on Mars
		Conclusion: Recalibrating the Human
		Works Cited
Index