Latające statki i podwodne plemiona – afrofuturystyczne konteksty mitu Flying Africans
Spaceships and Underwater Tribes – Afrofuturistic Contexts of the Flying Africans Myth
Author(s): Elżbieta Binczycka-GacekSubject(s): Studies of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: afrofuturism; comparative literature; Flying Africans; postcolonialism; postcolonial literature
Summary/Abstract: This article’s objective is to compare different afrofuturistic texts containing references to the Flying Africans myth. I am going to analyse Anthony Joseph’s text The African Origins of UFOs and Nalo Hopkinson’s novel The Salt Roads in the musical funk and ambient context. My main focus is the song Star Child from album The Mothership Connection by the American band Parliament-Funkadelic and an electro-ambient album by the American group Drexciya, entitled The Quest, built around a story about an underwater human race living in the bottom of the Atlantic, born of pregnant women thrown overboard by slave ships.
Journal: Przegląd Kulturoznawczy
- Issue Year: 49/2021
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 511-524
- Page Count: 14
- Language: Polish