ABSTRACT

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.

part I|177 pages

Indigenous Futurisms

chapter 1|12 pages

The Future Imaginary

chapter 2|12 pages

“Lands of Chemical Death”

Toxic Survivance in Bunky Echo-Hawk's Gas Masks as Medicine and Misha's Red Spider White Web

chapter 3|10 pages

Water, Fire, Earth

Darcie Little Badger's “Ku Ko Né Ä” Series

chapter 5|11 pages

Wayfinding Pasifikafuturism

An Indigenous Science Fiction Vision of the Ocean in Space

chapter 9|11 pages

Blackfella Futurism

Speculative Fiction Grounded in Grassroots Sovereignty Politics

chapter 10|11 pages

Anthologizing the Indigenous Environmental Imaginary

Moonshot Volume 3 and Ecocritical Futurisms

chapter 12|9 pages

Russell Bates (Kiowa)

Eco-SF and Indigenous Futurisms

chapter 13|11 pages

Welcome to the World of Tomorrow!

Building the Decolonial Apocalypse in Indigenous Futurist Writing

chapter 14|9 pages

Coding Potawatomi Cosmologies

Elements of Bodwéwadmi Futurisms

chapter 15|14 pages

(Re)writing and (Re)beading

Understanding Indigenous Women's Roles in the Creation of Indigenous Futurisms

chapter 16|10 pages

“Okinawa Q” (an Uchinanchū Futurism)

Okinawans Rectify the Japanese Unbalanced View of Nature Through Tokusatsu Television and Film

part II|155 pages

Latinx Futurisms

chapter 20|11 pages

Conjurando poderes de existencia

Depictions of Sabidurías in the Latin American Speculative Fiction Series Siempre Bruja

chapter 21|10 pages

Utopic Rage

Transforming the Future Through Narratives of Black Feminine Monstrosity and Rage

chapter 22|11 pages

Grounding the Future

Locating Senior's “Grung” Poetics in Tobias Buckell's Speculative Fiction

chapter 24|11 pages

Alejandro Morales's The Rag Doll Plagues

Chican@/Latinx Futurism—Between Intra-History and Utopia

chapter 27|12 pages

Chicanx Futurist Performances

Guillermo Gómez-Peña and the La Pocha Nostra Territorial Cartographies

chapter 28|11 pages

Crossing Merfolk

Mermaids and the Middle Passage in African Diasporic Culture

chapter 31|3 pages

Toward a Mexican American Futurism

chapter 32|2 pages

Some Kind of Tomorrow

part III|153 pages

Asian, Middle East, and Other Futurisms

chapter 35|11 pages

“In the Future, No One Is Completely Human”

Posthuman Poetics in Sun Yung Shin's Unbearable Splendor and Franny Choi's Soft Science

chapter 36|19 pages

The New Gods

Merging the Ancient and the Contemporary of Egypt

chapter 37|12 pages

For Different Tomorrows

Speculative Analogy, Korean Futurisms, and Yoon Ha Lee's “Ghostweight”

chapter 38|11 pages

Speculating Robot in the Indian Technoculture

Claiming the Future through Select Indian Science Fiction Films

chapter 39|9 pages

Invasion, Takeover, and Disappearance

Post–Cold War Fear in Hong Kong SAR Sci-Fi Film

chapter 40|11 pages

Confucius No Say

Sino-Fi Web Fiction, Film, and Period Drama

chapter 41|10 pages

From Sexual Desire to Personal Freedom

Women and Their Rights in Chen Qiufan's “G Stands for Goddess”

chapter 42|11 pages

The Antekaal Awakens

Rendezvous with Rama (Rajya) and the Golden Past in India's Anglophone Science Fiction

chapter 43|7 pages

“Restart the Play”

On Cyclicality and the “Indian Woman” in the Theatrical Future of C Sharp C Blunt

chapter 44|16 pages

Speculative Hong Kong

Silky Potentials of a Living Science Fiction

part IV|151 pages

African and African American Futurisms

chapter 46|12 pages

Waste Time

Bodily Fluids and Afrofuturity

chapter 48|11 pages

Transformative Cyborgs

Unsettling Humanity in Nnedi Okorafor's Binti , The Book of Phoenix, and Lagoon

chapter 51|10 pages

“They Say I'm Hopeless”

Jane McKeene Talks Back as Black Girls Do—Interlocking Oppressions and Justina Ireland's Dread Nation

chapter 52|10 pages

“The Strength of No Separation”

A Poethics of Inseparability After the End of the World

chapter 54|10 pages

“But I'm Right Here”

The Curious Case of Killmonger and the Failures of Utopian Desire in Marvel's Black Panther

chapter 55|10 pages

Coming Together, “Free, Whole, Decolonized”

Reading Black Feminisms in Tochi Onyebuchi's Riot Baby

chapter 56|10 pages

Engaging Second-Person Present

Metafiction and Stereotypes in Violet Allen's “The Venus Effect”

chapter 57|11 pages

“Can You Feel It”

Michael Jackson, Afrofuturism, and Building the Jacksonverse

chapter 59|11 pages

The Middle Passage to the Anthropocene

Eco-Humanist Futures in Black Women's Poetry