ХХХI Zora! Festival and Multiverse: Introduction to Afrofuturism Conference (Eatonville-Orlando, Florida, USA)
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- УДК / UDK: 82-991
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The review outlines the major topics of the conference on Afrofuturism in the framework of the ZORA! Festival of Arts and Humanities which took place on January 25 – February 2, 2020 at the UCF, Orlando and Eatonville. The term Afrofuturism was created by Mark Dery in 1994 in relation to speculative fiction. Since that time the term has got a lot of different meanings as a literary and artistic movement, a philosophical view, and a mode of epistemology. The conference presentations put all the problems of the modern understanding of Afrofuturism in the framework of the historical and cultural experience of African Americans. The guest speaker was Ishmael Reed, an American novelist and poet.
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