O futuro será negro ou não será
Afrofuturismo versus Afropessimismo - as distopias do presente
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https://doi.org/10.26512/dasquestoes.v6i6.18706Abstract
Departing from the debate on the concepts of Afrofuturism and Afropessimism this paper questions the place of contemporary Black narrative dystopias (in Cinema, Music and Literature); therefore, it discusses artistic works in which Black protagonists shift the ideas of dystopia and apocalypse from future temporality. Through Black social theory and critique, these works strengthen a post-apocalyptic reading of the present, when all that remains is precariousness as a way of life, given that the end of the world has already happened.
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