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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kiguru, Doseline

Titel

Speculative fiction and African urban futures: Writing food in Billy Kahora's edited collection Imagine Africa 500

Ist Teil von

• Tydskrif vir letterkunde, 2021-01, Vol.58 (1), p.98-106

Ort / Verlag

Pretoria: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]they all present a "what if ?" scenario and the major focus in this article is the question of: "what if the current expansion of cities continues and in 500 years there is no more land to expand cities horizontally, ending up with just vertical city expansions?" From the curatorial level of these stories, they chose to employ speculative fiction as a genre in order to offer social and political critique of society today. In other stories such as "Necessary and Sufficient Conditions" by Wole Talabi, "A is a Four-Letter Word" by Hannah Onoguwe, and "Women Are From Venus" by Tiseke Chilima, the setting is after technological mishaps that have led to genetic modifications resulting in a society divided between the humans and the non-human genetically modified others. In its classic subgenre of dystopia, narratives display catastrophic futures in the wake of nuclear disaster, ecological ruin, global economic crises, totalitarian regimes, or more often a combination of all these. Concrete and steel buildings have reached out into the sky, transportation litters both ground and air as the human race continues to improve technologies that ease transportation by making it more rapid.