Afrofuturism would not have been the same movement without her contribution. A famous African American author who paid special attention to these needs and was able to create critical and groundbreaking narratives was Octavia Butler. The very core of this cultural current is based on the desire to represent underrepresented subjects, give voice to silenced groups, and rewrite neglected histories that have been substituted by the dominant and singular European history.
The fundamental ideals and progression of afrofuturism cannot be detached from some very resounding names. Many authors and artists have actively contributed to this shift their joined forces are currently helping influence society in a positive and critical way. Afrofuturism tries to fill the void left by white male dominance in the field of science fiction by blending different cultures and traditions into a less exclusive and exclusionary genre. Afrofuturism uses African, African American and black diasporic perceptions of past and present as ways to reconnect people of all kinds it does not only aim at the promotion of non-white, African and African American literary and artistic production, but it is also centered on the creation of a more inclusive, more universal paradigm that will hopefully address everybody’s dreams, desires, hopes and futures.
This cultural and philosophical movement has the potential to overcome the differences that are so often used as a catalyst for conflict it has been employed to connect and unite people, through the recovery and reclamation of often forsaken and silenced pasts and histories. For the respect that everyone else is given without questionĪfrofuturism is a complex and multifaceted cultural current that took its first steps when the seemingly undefeatable whiteness of science fiction stopped playing a universally accepted role and started being consistently and systematically challenged (Carrington, 2016).
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