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Kolor skóry i etniczność w narracjach audiowizualnego cyberpunka
Race and Ethnicity in Narratives of Audiovisual Cyberpunk

Author(s): Lidia Kniaź-Hunek
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: race; audiovisuality; ethnicity; cyberpunk; new media.

Summary/Abstract: Kniaz-Hunek explores how issues of race are addressed in cyberpunk texts. She analysesa selection of such works, focusing especially on audiovisual media and the portrayal ofBlack people. Writers of colour have recently harnessed this aesthetic in their innovativeengagement with race and ethnicity. Examining selected audiovisual works by Blackartists (Janelle Monáe’s visual album Dirty Computer and Sylvester Ammoussou’s filmAfrica Paradis), Kniaz-Hunek identifies recurrent motifs such as racial dystopia, thepresence of racist technology and Afro-pessimism.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 125-141
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish
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