Introduction to Afrofuturism Panel - with DuEwa Frazier, Alan King, Victoria Moten & Christian M. Hines

Introduction to Afrofuturism delivers a fresh and contemporary introduction to Afrofuturism, discussing key themes, understandings, and interdisciplinary topics across multiple genres in Black literature, film, and music. From Afrofuturism's origins to the present, this critical volume features scholarly works, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction which illuminates on the contributions of notable Afrofuturists such as Octavia Bulter, Sun Ra, N.K. Jemisin, Janelle Monáe, Nnedi Okorafor, Saul Williams, Prince, and more. The volume highlights the impact of films such as Black Panther (2018, 2022), The Woman King (2022), and They Cloned Tyrone (2023) and covers a variety of essential topics giving students a comprehensive view of the legacy of storytelling and the tradition of "remixing" in Black literature and arts. This volume makes connections across academic subject areas and is an engaging reader for pop culture and media film studies, women's, gender, and sexuality studies, Black and Africana studies, hip-hop studies, creative writing, and composition and rhetoric.DuEwa Frazier is a poet, scholar, children’s author, program leader, speaker, consultant, and digital storyteller. She is the author of several volumes of poetry, stories for young readers, and the editor of scholarly volumes, including Introduction to Afrofuturism: A Mixtape in Black Literature & Arts (Routledge). DuEwa is the founder of DuEwa World Digital and Black Scholars in Podcasting. She is the creator and host of digital podcasts, Nerdacity and Afrofutures Pod featuring poets and writers. Alan King is a Caribbean American poet, whose parents emigrated to the U.S. from Trinidad and Tobago in the early ‘70s. He’s a father, husband, and author of two collections of poetry: Point Blank (Silver Birch Press, 2016) and Drift(Aquarius Press, 2012). King’s poetry caught the attention of US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo who said: “Alan King is one of my favorite up-and-coming poets of his generation. His poems are not pop and flash, rather more like a slow dance with someone you’re going to love forever.” KVictoria Moten is a Professional Track faculty member at the University of Maryland, Department of English. She is a doctoral student in the English Department at Howard University with a major focus in African American Literature and a minor focus in Women’s Studies. She received her M.A. in Language in Literature at Clark Atlanta University completing her thesis on the works of James Baldwin. Victoria’s research interests lie in the speculative fiction works of Black women writers, from Hurston to Butler, and what their prose presents about the importance of the human connection to nature–particularly the connection to place. She’s presented on panels at the National Council for Black Studies, College English Association, and the American University in Paris James Baldwin Conference on this subject. Her writing on this subject can be found in Introduction to Afrofuturism: A Mixtape in Black Literature & Arts (Routledge 2024). A Hurston/Wright Fellow, her creative writing ranges from poetry to short fiction.Christian M. Hines is an Assistant Professor of Reading and Literacy at Texas State University. She is a former high school English teacher and Blerd (black nerd) and teacher educator whose work centers on the use of diverse young adult literature and multimodal texts in the secondary classroom. She leans into comics and graphic novels, specifically diverse teen superhero narratives as a way for students and practitioners to understand the intersectional lived experiences of youth and the impact that youth has on society and enacting resistance.PURCHASE BOOK: https://politics-prose.com/book/9781032662411?ic_referral=z5Gyb3-uXAEUVI51Ay2JseGs-FmvMh4XPi1f1ReKMzQwM2rGoGq6Yq18iHx7SUBrRrg1MtMAyE67S0D-nB8UOk1rnwTOkO-D6ZNzb7U0_ZB2gz1KDv6NNi2t9c0fc3U9corGX1w