Afropesymizm i afrofuturyzm – narracje spekulatywne w amerykańskich serialach fantastycznych
Afropessimism and Afrofuturism: Speculative Fiction in American Television Series

Summary/Abstract: The author begins with the assumption that fantastic stories are tools of speculative thinking and reflection on man’s past and future. The analysis concerns two television series classified as fantastic: Lovecraft Country (HBO, 2020) and Kindred (FX on Hulu, 2022). Both represent the artistic movement called Afrofuturism, which is an example of speculative narrative aimed at reinterpreting history, i.e., working through the traumatic experiences of slavery, and designing an alternative community for the black minority. In the above series, Afrofuturist ideas are accompanied by what can be called Afropessimism, because the story of emancipation is confronted with the opposite diagnosis, according to which being Black is synonymous with social death.

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