Open AccessThe Aquatic Turn in Afrofuturism
Author(s) -
Daniela Fargione
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
le simplegadi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1824-5226
DOI - 10.17456/simple-173
Subject(s) - hydrosphere , criticism , mythology , history , rubric , order (exchange) , aesthetics , geography , art , oceanography , literature , sociology , geology , ecology , biosphere , pedagogy , finance , economics , biology
The recent efflorescence of fictional writings and artistic works examined under the rubrics of Blue Humanities (Mentz 2009), Critical Ocean Studies (DeLoughrey 2019), Hydro-Criticism (Winkiel 2019), or New Thalassology (Horden and Purcell 2006), testify a recent cultural shift from the land to the sea. In this article, the hydrosphere is analysed in two female Afrofuturist works – Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon (2014) and Wanuri Kahiu’s short film Pumzi (2010) – to address the global capitalist order and to imagine an aquafuturist multispecies aesthetics that springs from the countermemory of the Middle Passage and its undersea myths