Introduction to Afrofuturism

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 M. Frazier, EdD, MFA, is a poet, essayist, scholar, digital creator, TEDx and keynote speaker, and Assistant Professor of English at Coppin State University. Frazier’s research, creative nonfiction, and digital writings focus on hip-hop pedagogy and popular culture, culturally responsive pedagogy, Black women writers, and Black Feminism. She is the editor of Teaching Humanities with Cultural Responsiveness at HBCUs and HSIs (2024). Her poetry has featured in Split This Rock/Blog This Rock, Water Magazine, Tidal Basin Review, Poetry in Performance, and others. She is the author of several published volumes of poetry and children’s stories. She has been a writing fellow at the Hurston/Wright Foundation and Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. She holds advanced degrees in Creative Writing, Curriculum and Teaching, and Higher Education Leadership. Frazier earned an MFA in Creative Writing at The New School, USA.