Heterotopian Temporalities and Afrocentric Futures
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- Carl Death
- Reported year
- 2025
- Reported language
- en
- Source type
- book-chapter
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- 2026-11-14T02:39:53.677366+00:00
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Abstract This chapter asks when are African climate futures set and how do they challenge mainstream understandings of time and temporality? It argues that a core feature of Africanfuturist climate fiction is that the passing of time is rendered more complex than in dominant climate temporalities. Africanfuturist climate fiction challenges dominant temporalities in four ways: by imagining Afrocentric global futures; through heterotopian temporal structures that interweave past, present, and future; by insisting on the active role of the detritus of the past—like racism and Whiteness—in the present and future; and the predication of all this on the inevitability of death, decay, and suffering. This chapter focuses on novels by Nnedi Okorafor, the films Black Panther and Pumzi, and the Mara and Dann novels by Doris Lessing. The chapter concludes by suggesting that there should be more space for remembrance, grief, mortality, and compost in dominant climate imaginaries.
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- https://openalex.org/W4411141382
- DOI
- 10.1093/9780198960775.003.0005
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- Oxford University Press
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- Oxford University Press
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- 2025-06-09
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Carl Death. Heterotopian Temporalities and Afrocentric Futures. 2025. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198960775.003.0005
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- Carl Death. (2025). Heterotopian Temporalities and Afrocentric Futures. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198960775.003.0005
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- Carl Death. Heterotopian Temporalities and Afrocentric Futures. Oxford University Press. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198960775.003.0005
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- Carl Death. Heterotopian Temporalities and Afrocentric Futures. 2025. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198960775.003.0005
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