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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|177 pages
Indigenous Futurisms
chapter 2|12 pages
“Lands of Chemical Death”
chapter 5|11 pages
Wayfinding Pasifikafuturism
chapter 9|11 pages
Blackfella Futurism
chapter 10|11 pages
Anthologizing the Indigenous Environmental Imaginary
chapter 13|11 pages
Welcome to the World of Tomorrow!
chapter 15|14 pages
(Re)writing and (Re)beading
chapter 16|10 pages
“Okinawa Q” (an Uchinanchū Futurism)
part II|155 pages
Latinx Futurisms
chapter 20|11 pages
Conjurando poderes de existencia
chapter 21|10 pages
Utopic Rage
chapter 22|11 pages
Grounding the Future
chapter 24|11 pages
Alejandro Morales's The Rag Doll Plagues
chapter 26|10 pages
Afrofuturism, Amazofuturism, Indigenous Futurism, and Sertãopunk in Brazilian Science Fiction
chapter 27|12 pages
Chicanx Futurist Performances
part III|153 pages
Asian, Middle East, and Other Futurisms
chapter 35|11 pages
“In the Future, No One Is Completely Human”
chapter 37|12 pages
For Different Tomorrows
chapter 38|11 pages
Speculating Robot in the Indian Technoculture
chapter 39|9 pages
Invasion, Takeover, and Disappearance
chapter 41|10 pages
From Sexual Desire to Personal Freedom
chapter 42|11 pages
The Antekaal Awakens
chapter 43|7 pages
“Restart the Play”
part IV|151 pages
African and African American Futurisms