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A Feminist Perspective on Gender Representation in Nnedi Okorafor's 'Lagoon'

Autor: Leonie Dittricher

Número de Páginas: 26

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Literature - Africa, grade: 2,0, University of Bremen, language: English, abstract: Nnedi Okorafor’s novel 'Lagoon' is a work of speculative fiction which challenges science fiction stereotypes by placing an alien invasion narrative inside Lagos, Nigeria and mixing mythological creatures and aliens with themes of spirituality, ideology, and political, social and personal dilemmas. Among those, the novel explores terrains of gender inequality and gender identity and displays a feminist attitude towards those issues. The characters and their actions underline the conflicts which define issues researched in gender studies. That and the themes as well as reader and author-related motives are guidelines to outline the representation of gender in Nnedi Okorafor’s 'Lagoon' and attempting to expose a feminist mentality. Nnedi Okorafor challenges traditional gender roles explicitly and implicitly by offering a wide range of personalities and by placing those personalities in a chaotic and dangerous environment, which places both male and female characters on the same level of imminent danger, with outsiders offering a new perspective on...

Le Livre de Phénix

Autor: Nnedi Okorafor

Número de Páginas: 244

Phénix est une femme accélérée créée artificiellement dans les laboratoires de la Tour 7 à New York. Née il y a deux ans, elle a déjà l’apparence d’une adulte et possède des capacités physiques et intellectuelles hors norme, ainsi que des pouvoirs dévastateurs. Coupée du monde extérieur, elle mène une vie paisible et agréable dans le bâtiment qui l’a vue naître, partageant son temps entre séances de sport, sessions de lecture et moments privilégiés avec son petit ami Saeed. Jusqu'au jour où, celui-ci, témoin d'un terrible événement, se suicide. Phénix se rend alors compte que sa maison n’est en réalité qu’une prison, et qu’il est grand temps pour elle de déployer ses ailes et s’ouvrir au monde. Le Livre de Phénix constitue une préquelle indépendante à Qui a peur de la mort ? (World Fantasy Award 2011, prix Imaginales 2014). Un roman fort et marquant qui exploite jusqu’au bout la colère et l’envie de vengeance, jusqu’à les symboliser dans son personnage principal, l’incandescente Phénix. La Geekosophe. Une belle et amère réflexion sur la folie des hommes, l’appât du gain et la société de consommation. Elbakin....

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Anglophone Literature and Migration

Autor: Nicoletta Vallorani , Simona Bertacco , William Boelhower

Número de Páginas: 537

Focusing on a significant 70-year period as a climactic phase of displacement, the book investigates the role of literature in producing new modes of representing and understanding migration in a global context. Globally felt and reported as a geographical, sociological, anthropological, and historical phenomenon, migration has produced an unprecedented corpus of literary narratives that demands to be approached through its own set of cross-disciplinary critical approaches. This Handbook explores tales of migration via a systematic study of the large corpus of Anglophone literary texts that have been written by migrant authors and/or on the topic of migration between 1946 and 2016-from the start of the United Nations International Migration Report to the first year in which the number of displaced people reached the level of the Second World War, marking a new phase in global migrations. Given the dominance of English as a world language, often used by writers who are not native speakers, the volume covers Anglophone writing, providing a substantially representative corpus that includes texts from or about Europe, Africa, North and Central America, and the South Asia and Pacific...

Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction

Autor: Meghan Gilbert-hickey , Miranda A. Green-barteet

Número de Páginas: 273

Winner of the Children’s Literature Association’s 2023 Edited Book Award Contributions by Malin Alkestrand, Joshua Yu Burnett, Sean P. Connors, Jill Coste, Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Sierra Hale, Kathryn Strong Hansen, Elizabeth Ho, Esther L. Jones, Sarah Olutola, Alex Polish, Zara Rix, Susan Tan, and Roberta Seelinger Trites Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction offers a sustained analysis of race and representation in young adult speculative fiction (YASF). The collection considers how characters of color are represented in YASF, how they contribute to and participate in speculative worlds, how race affects or influences the structures of speculative worlds, and how race and racial ideologies are implicated in YASF. This collection also examines how race and racism are discussed in YASF or if, indeed, race and racism are discussed at all. Essays explore such notable and popular works as the Divergent series, The Red Queen, The Lunar Chronicles, and the Infernal Devices trilogy. They consider the effects of colorblind ideology and postracialism on YASF, a genre that is often seen as progressive in its representation of adolescent protagonists. Simply...

The Postcolonial Bildungsroman

Autor: Arnab Dutta Roy , Paul Ugor

Número de Páginas: 565

Offering a fresh comparative lens, this volume demonstrates how postcolonial writers have transformed the Bildungsroman from an eighteenth-century European genre meant to explore local themes around childhood development into one of the most cosmopolitan literary mediums for communicating overlapping concerns about global modernity. Chapters examine identity, sexuality, human rights, the climate crisis, neoliberal globalization, and a host of other issues in work from a wide range of postcolonial locations across Asia, Europe, Africa, the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand. Forging productive engagements between narratology and genre theory, the volume documents the aesthetic and thematic shifts that have accompanied the Bildungsroman over time, particularly in the context of anticolonial, liberationist, and self-determination struggles from the mid-twentieth century onwards in the Global South. With essays from multiple continents, The Postcolonial Bildungsroman makes a crucial intervention to the existing scholarship on this influential genre and a unique contribution to the study of world literature. Contributors: David Babcock, Sarah Brouillette, Gregory Byala, Deena Dinat,...

Populating the Future

Autor: Britt Johanne Farstad

Número de Páginas: 266

Speculative fiction opens doors for imagining beyond what is possible, conventional or acceptable. Speculative fiction has an acute ear for the social, the scientific and for political developments and change, all of which are prominent topics. Reproduction and parenthood are pertinent social questions that are constantly renegotiated in various arenas. By investigating representations of family-making and reproduction in speculative fiction, the research presented in Populating the Future: Families and Reproduction in Speculative Fiction not only adds to the field of speculative fiction scholarship, but also contributes to the more general discussion about reproduction and parenting. Speculative fiction operates as thought laboratories that make connections between discourses visible. It highlights power structures that can be difficult to detach and represents difficult and abstract issues more concretely. As such, speculative fiction demonstrates the complex entanglement of reproduction with issues of gender, power and agency. By facilitating thought experiments and illustrating alternatives, speculative fiction also enables the representation of new family structures and...

Transmodern Literatures in the 21st Century

Autor: Claus-peter Neumann , Pilar Royo-grasa

Número de Páginas: 252

Transmodern Literatures in the 21st Century: Of(f) Limits offers an in-depth examination of how transmodern literatures in English over the last two decades have addressed the phenomenon of the limit. The 14 chapters that make up the volume examine how geographical, racial, ethnical, sociocultural, generical, ontological, epistemological, and other limits are articulated, transgressed, and reconfigured in recent narratives by authors writing in a wide variety of transmodern trends such as Afro- and Africanfuturism, Young Adult feminist science fiction, food fiction, air travel fiction, the networked novel, and future narratives amongst others. They thereby expose and challenge hierarchised binary dichotomies as Euro- and Anthropocentric exclusionary discursive constructs that have kept non-hegemonic voices off limits. To counter the detrimental effects of the neoliberal grand narrative of globalisation, the chapters as well as the narratives of the limit they analyse emphasise an urgent need for inclusiveness, relationality, and communality.

Forest Imaginaries

Autor: Ainehi Edoro

Número de Páginas: 169

Forests in fiction are often understood simply as settings, symbols, or remnants of a premodern past. Yet many African novelists have turned to the forest to experiment with worldbuilding and to imagine new futures. This groundbreaking book explores the life of the forest in African fiction, showing how writers have used it to reinvent the novel’s formal, aesthetic, and political possibilities. Ainehi Edoro argues that forests in African fiction are laboratories for unmaking and remaking the world, where writers break apart familiar forms to test alternate forms of life, knowledge, and power. Instead of treating the forest as a backdrop, these writers imagine it as a living structure: a space where politics, history, myth, violence, technology, the magical, and creativity animate fictional worlds. Spanning indigenous African narratives and contemporary science fiction, Forest Imaginaries traces the lineage of forest worlds in African literature: Chinua Achebe’s evil forest, the cosmic forest in Wọle Ṣóyínká’s mythic imagination, Thomas Mofolo’s forest of imperial dreams, Amos Tutuola’s endless fractal forest, and Nnedi Okorafor’s aquatic forest of new ecological ...

La muerte de la autora

Autor: Nnedi Okorafor

Número de Páginas: 601

Compleja, trepidante y rompedora. Una novela especulativa sobre el poder de la creación. ¿Puede una historia cambiar el futuro del mundo? La vida le ha dado algunos golpes a Zelu, pero cuando la despiden de su trabajo y rechazan su última novela, su vida da un vuelco. Procedente de una familia exigente y crítica, no sabe bien qué va a ser de ella. Entonces toma una decisión arriesgada: escribir un libro muy diferente a los demás. Una historia sobre androides e inteligencia artificial tras la extinción de la humanidad. Y todo cambia. Lo que viene después es una historia de amor y pérdida, fama e infamia, y acontecimientos extraordinarios en un mundo y en otro, donde la línea entre la ficción y la realidad se difumina.

Qui a peur de la mort ?

Autor: Nnedi Okorafor

Número de Páginas: 346

Dans une Afrique post-apocalyptique, la guerre continue de faire rage. Enfant du viol, rejetée par les siens du fait de sa peau et ses cheveux couleur de sable, Onyesonwu porte en elle autant de colère que d’espoir. Seule sa mère ne semble pas étonnée lorsqu’elle se met à développer les prémices d’une magie unique et puissante. Lors de l’un de ses voyages dans le monde des esprits, elle se rend compte qu’une terrible force cherche à lui nuire. Pour en triompher, elle devra affronter son destin, sa nature, la tradition et comprendre enfin le nom que sa mère lui a donné : Qui a peur de la mort. Il y a plus d’imagination dans une page de Nnedi Okorafor que dans bien des cycles de fantasy. Ursula K. Le Guin. Une histoire puissante. SyFantasy. World Fantasy Award 2011. Prix imaginales 2014. En cours d’adaptation par HBO. Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Laurent Philibert-Caillat.

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025

Autor: Nnedi Okorafor , John Joseph Adams

Número de Páginas: 326

Of science fiction and fantasy, guest editor Nnedi Okorafor writes, “There are times when it feels like a box, but within it, technically, you can expect anything.” The twenty stories in this collection simultaneously fulfill and defy expectations of genre, showcasing boundary-pushing authors at their best. In this year’s Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, a robot will struggle to make friends, a team of auditors determines the financial value of a lifetime, an alien species will teach you how to read, and maybe, just maybe, someone will finally do something about the kid in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Omelas hole. From the joyous to the terrifying, to the heart wrenching and the absurd, these stories encourage you to open your mind and, as Okorafor promises: “Watch your world expand.” THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY 2025 INCLUDES: 'PEMI AGUDA • KIJ JOHNSON • TANANARIVE DUE • S.L. HUANG • JOE HILL • ISABEL J. KIM • T.J. KLUNE • OLIVIE BLAKE • CAROLINE M. YOACHIM • AND OTHERS

Zahrah the Windseeker

Autor: Nnedi Okorafor-mbachu

Número de Páginas: 325

Award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor's speculative fiction novel Zahrah the Windseeker is an African cultural story about a young girl's heroic journey. Winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature "A consistently compelling and provocative tale. Locus In the Ooni Kingdom, children born dada—with vines growing in their hair—are rumored to have special powers. Zahrah Tsami doesn't know anything about that. She feels normal. Others think she's different—they fear her. Only Dari, her best friend, isn't afraid of her. But then something begins to happen—something that definitely marks Zahrah as different—and the only person she can tell is Dari. He pushes her to investigate, edging them both closer and closer to danger. Until Dari's life is on the line. Only Zahrah can save him, but to do so she'll have to face her worst fears alone, including the very thing that makes her different. This ebook edition includes bonus content and images

Akata Woman

Autor: Nnedi Okorafor

Número de Páginas: 381

Mon nom est Sunny Nwazue et le temps m'est compté. Je suis nigériane de sang, américaine de naissance et albinos de peau. Avec mes amis de la société des Léopards et la magie dont je dispose, je peux survivre à la nuit et aux créatures qui la peuplent. Sauf que mes pouvoirs m'obligent. Et quand Udide, la Grande Araignée artiste, me convoque pour récupérer son plus grand poème mystique qui lui a été dérobé, je n'ai pas le choix. Pour elle, il faut que je m'enfonce plus loin encore dans la nuit, aux confins de la terre et même au-delà, sur la Route, où les femmes féroces de la tribu Nimm à laquelle j'appartiens l'ont dissimulé. Il en va de l'équilibre du monde visible et invisible.

Dama Ninao

Autor: Didier Amela , Koutchoukalo Tchassim , Adama Ouedraogo

Número de Páginas: 321

Comment les écrivains représentent-ils les inquiétudes liées à la pandémie du Covid-19 ? Dans quelle mesure la littérature peut-elle être un outil de résilience dans une période qui génère beaucoup d'angoisse ? Quelle contribution attendre des médecins, psychologues et sociologues en cette période d'anxiété et de survie ? Quel monde imaginer après le Covid-19 ? Les textes de cet ouvrage se sont penchés sur toutes ces interrogations et ont mis en lumière la perception de ce « mal mondial », et son impact sur l'individu.

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024

Autor: Hugh Howey , John Joseph Adams

Número de Páginas: 281

A collection of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author of the Silo series Hugh Howey and series editor John Joseph Adams. “These are dangerous stories. The kind that warp reality and threaten to change the world” warns guest editor Hugh Howey in his introduction. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 promises a treasure trove of audacious characters, daring worldbuilding, and twisted realties. A sibling duo of supernatural hitmen. A traveling spellbreaker and his trusty alligator mount. Superheroes registering for work. Sentient spaceships with an AI-human interface grow up together with their human pilots. From a Korean folk-tale retelling about the goddess of shamans, to a car, resurrected from obsolescence via automancy, for a road trip from California to Maine, these are stories that, for Howey, “challenged my worldview, that made me exercise new mental muscles, and that brought me to tears.” The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 includes A.R. CAPETTA • P. DJÈLÍ CLARK • JAMES S.A. COREY • AMAL EL-MOHTAR • ANDREW SEAN GREER • GRADY HENDRIX • ANN LECKIE • SAM J....

Death of the Author

Autor: Nnedi Okorafor

Número de Páginas: 419

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This one has it all' GEORGE R. R. MARTIN 'As delicious as it is disorienting' ZAKIYA DALILA HARRIS 'Beautifully evoked' THE GUARDIAN 'Suspenseful, timely, and heartfelt' PEOPLE 'Mind-bending' THE NEW YORK TIMES The future of storytelling is here. Life has thrown Zelu some curveballs over the years, but when she's suddenly dropped from her university job and her latest novel is rejected, all in the middle of her sister's wedding, her life is upended. Disabled, unemployed and from a nosy, high-achieving, judgmental family, she's not sure what comes next. In her hotel room that night, she takes the risk that will define her life - she decides to write a book VERY unlike her others. A science fiction drama about androids and AI after the extinction of humanity. And everything changes. What follows is a tale of love and loss, fame and infamy, of extraordinary events in one world, and another. And as Zelu's life evolves, the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur. Because sometimes a story really does have the power to reshape the world. Nnedi Okorafor, a New York Times bestselling and award-winning author, presents a sweeping tale about...

Ahí fuera gritando

Autor: Jordan Peele

Número de Páginas: 478

Una antología de black horror compilada por el cineasta Jordan Peele. Dos Pasajeros de la Libertad suben a un autobús que los deja varados en una carretera solitaria en Alabama, donde les espera algo realmente inquietante; Una joven se sumerge en las profundidades en busca del demonio que mató a sus padres; Cazadores de monstruos que luchan incansablemente, IA humanoides que luchan por sus derechos o una mujer Igbo que se enfrenta a un espíritu poderoso. Estos son solo algunos de los mundos que nos presenta Ahí fuera, gritando, la antología de black horror compilada por el cineasta Jordan Peele con autores como P. Djèlí Clark, N. K. Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor o Rebecca Roanhorse, entre muchos otros. Obra ganadora de los Premios Stoker y Locus 2024 a Mejor Antología.

El Pestilente Oro Negro

Autor: E. Larby

Número de Páginas: 210

Un exseminarista irlandés, un idealista nigeriano, un lascivo, homosexual y alcohólico hombre de negocios y un traficante de droga, ambos nigerianos, con un grupo terrorista y un despiadado magnate americano del petróleo, conjuntamente con la aparición de una joven de excepcional belleza y con el telón de fondo del oro negro se conjugan, manipulados por los servicios secretos de China y EE. UU. para convertir a Nigeria en uno de los países más peligrosos del mundo. Un país que sufrió las secuelas de un imperialismo esquilmador y corruptor y que la independencia ha contribuido, si cabe, a agravar. Con unas élites incapaces y egoístas que solo buscan medrar. Los personajes se ven dirigidos y manipulados, desbordados por unos acontecimientos provocados por unos poderes fácticos que ni las autoridades nigerianas ni los propios interesados pueden descifrar y mucho menos controlar, son peones de una diabólica lucha por el poder entre un imperio en declive, los Estados Unidos, y otro que quiere ocupar su lugar, la China comunista-capitalista.

La Mascarade nocturne (Binti, Tome 2)

Autor: Nnedi Okorafor

Número de Páginas: 149

De retour sur Terre après une année passée à l’université intergalactique d’Oomza, la jeune Binti n’en a pas fini avec les surprises. Elle vient d’apprendre qu’elle est la descendante des Enyi Zinariya, un peuple extraterrestre, et se retrouve désormais capable de communiquer sans technologie tierce à travers de grandes distances. Mais la découverte de ce don, qu’elle maîtrise encore difficilement, s’accompagne d’une douloureuse nouvelle : sa famille a péri dans l’incendie de leur maison lors d’une attaque des Khoush. Pourtant, le temps du deuil n’est pas encore venu : avant tout, Binti doit parvenir à concilier ses natures humaine et extraterrestre pour ramener la paix au sein de son peuple... quel qu’en soit le prix. Un roman initiatique servi par une magnifique écriture. Un petit bijou ! Coup de cœur des libraires de la Fnac. Nnedi Okorafor conjugue l’afroféminisme au futur et brosse le portrait d’héroïnes africaines complexes, loin des stéréotypes. Jeune Afrique. Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Hermine Hémon et Erwan Devos.

The Best American Science Fiction And Fantasy 2021

Autor: Veronica Roth , John Joseph Adams

Número de Páginas: 433

The best science fiction and fantasy stories of 2021, selected by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Veronica Roth. This year’s selection of science fiction and fantasy stories, chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and bestselling author of the Divergent series Veronica Roth, showcases a crop of authors that are willing to experiment and tantalize readers with new takes on classic themes and by exchanging the ordinary for the avant-garde. Folktales and lore come alive, the dead rise, the depths of space are traversed, and magic threads itself through singular moments of love and loss, illuminating the circulatory nature of life, death, the in-between, and the hereafter. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 captures the all-too-real cataclysm of human nature, claiming its place in the series with compelling prose, lyrical composition, and curiosity’s never-ending pursuit of discovering the unknown.