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.

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Introduction to CoFuturisms

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part I|177 pages

Indigenous Futurisms

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The Future Imaginary

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chapter 2|12 pages

“Lands of Chemical Death”

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Toxic Survivance in Bunky Echo-Hawk's Gas Masks as Medicine and Misha's Red Spider White Web
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chapter 3|10 pages

Water, Fire, Earth

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Darcie Little Badger's “Ku Ko Né Ä” Series
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chapter 5|11 pages

Wayfinding Pasifikafuturism

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An Indigenous Science Fiction Vision of the Ocean in Space
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Indigenous Young Adult Dystopias

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chapter 9|11 pages

Blackfella Futurism

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Speculative Fiction Grounded in Grassroots Sovereignty Politics
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chapter 10|11 pages

Anthologizing the Indigenous Environmental Imaginary

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Moonshot Volume 3 and Ecocritical Futurisms
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chapter 12|9 pages

Russell Bates (Kiowa)

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Eco-SF and Indigenous Futurisms
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chapter 13|11 pages

Welcome to the World of Tomorrow!

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Building the Decolonial Apocalypse in Indigenous Futurist Writing
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chapter 14|9 pages

Coding Potawatomi Cosmologies

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Elements of Bodwéwadmi Futurisms
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chapter 15|14 pages

(Re)writing and (Re)beading

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Understanding Indigenous Women's Roles in the Creation of Indigenous Futurisms
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chapter 16|10 pages

“Okinawa Q” (an Uchinanchū Futurism)

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Okinawans Rectify the Japanese Unbalanced View of Nature Through Tokusatsu Television and Film
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part II|155 pages

Latinx Futurisms

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chapter 20|11 pages

Conjurando poderes de existencia

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Depictions of Sabidurías in the Latin American Speculative Fiction Series Siempre Bruja
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chapter 21|10 pages

Utopic Rage

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Transforming the Future Through Narratives of Black Feminine Monstrosity and Rage
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chapter 22|11 pages

Grounding the Future

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Locating Senior's “Grung” Poetics in Tobias Buckell's Speculative Fiction
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chapter 24|11 pages

Alejandro Morales's The Rag Doll Plagues

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Chican@/Latinx Futurism—Between Intra-History and Utopia
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chapter 27|12 pages

Chicanx Futurist Performances

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Guillermo Gómez-Peña and the La Pocha Nostra Territorial Cartographies
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chapter 28|11 pages

Crossing Merfolk

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Mermaids and the Middle Passage in African Diasporic Culture
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Toward a Mexican American Futurism

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chapter 32|2 pages

Some Kind of Tomorrow

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part III|153 pages

Asian, Middle East, and Other Futurisms

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chapter 35|11 pages

“In the Future, No One Is Completely Human”

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Posthuman Poetics in Sun Yung Shin's Unbearable Splendor and Franny Choi's Soft Science
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chapter 36|19 pages

The New Gods

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Merging the Ancient and the Contemporary of Egypt
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chapter 37|12 pages

For Different Tomorrows

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Speculative Analogy, Korean Futurisms, and Yoon Ha Lee's “Ghostweight”
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chapter 38|11 pages

Speculating Robot in the Indian Technoculture

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Claiming the Future through Select Indian Science Fiction Films
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chapter 39|9 pages

Invasion, Takeover, and Disappearance

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Post–Cold War Fear in Hong Kong SAR Sci-Fi Film
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chapter 40|11 pages

Confucius No Say

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Sino-Fi Web Fiction, Film, and Period Drama
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chapter 41|10 pages

From Sexual Desire to Personal Freedom

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Women and Their Rights in Chen Qiufan's “G Stands for Goddess”
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chapter 42|11 pages

The Antekaal Awakens

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Rendezvous with Rama (Rajya) and the Golden Past in India's Anglophone Science Fiction
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chapter 43|7 pages

“Restart the Play”

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On Cyclicality and the “Indian Woman” in the Theatrical Future of C Sharp C Blunt
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chapter 44|16 pages

Speculative Hong Kong

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Silky Potentials of a Living Science Fiction
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part IV|151 pages

African and African American Futurisms

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chapter 46|12 pages

Waste Time

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Bodily Fluids and Afrofuturity
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chapter 48|11 pages

Transformative Cyborgs

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Unsettling Humanity in Nnedi Okorafor's Binti , The Book of Phoenix, and Lagoon
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chapter 51|10 pages

“They Say I'm Hopeless”

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Jane McKeene Talks Back as Black Girls Do—Interlocking Oppressions and Justina Ireland's Dread Nation
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chapter 52|10 pages

“The Strength of No Separation”

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A Poethics of Inseparability After the End of the World
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chapter 54|10 pages

“But I'm Right Here”

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The Curious Case of Killmonger and the Failures of Utopian Desire in Marvel's Black Panther
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chapter 55|10 pages

Coming Together, “Free, Whole, Decolonized”

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Reading Black Feminisms in Tochi Onyebuchi's Riot Baby
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chapter 56|10 pages

Engaging Second-Person Present

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Metafiction and Stereotypes in Violet Allen's “The Venus Effect”
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chapter 57|11 pages

“Can You Feel It”

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Michael Jackson, Afrofuturism, and Building the Jacksonverse
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chapter 59|11 pages

The Middle Passage to the Anthropocene

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Eco-Humanist Futures in Black Women's Poetry
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