Afrofuturisms - Isaac Vincent Joslin

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Biographie:
Isaac Vincent Joslin is an assistant professor of French at Arizona State University, where his research interests include theories of representation, theories of cultural hybridity, ecocriticism, and African futurisms. His journal publications include articles in the International Journal of Francophone Studies, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, African Literature Today, French Review, Oeuvres et Critiques, and Nouvelles ?tudes Francophones.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Africanfuturism, Development, and Humanities
1. Afrofuturist Ecolinguistics: Redefining the “Science” of Science Fiction
2. Birthing the Future: M?tissage and Cultural Hybridity in Francophone African Women’s Writing
3. Child Soldiers: Reinscribing the Human in a Culture of Perpetual War
4. Alienation, Estrangement, and Dreams of Departure: Emigration and the Politics of Global Inequality in (and out of) Francophone Africa
5. “We Don’t Need No Education” Alternative Pedagogies and Epistemologies in Bassek Ba Kobhio’s Sango Malo (1990) and Le Silence de la for?t (2003)
6. Paradis Artificiels: The Lottery of Global Economies in Djibril Diop Mambety’s Le Franc, Imunga Ivanga’s D?l?, and Fadika Kramo-Lancin?’s Wariko
7. Arguing against the Shame of the State: Sony Labou Tansi’s Ecocritical Womanism and Gaiacene Planetarity
Conclusion: Toward an Afrofuturist Ecohumanist Philosophy of Experience
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