Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms

Taryne Jade Taylor is Advanced Assistant Professor of Science Fiction at Florida Atlantic University. Her research focuses on the politics of representation in speculative fiction, particularly feminist science fiction and diasporic Latinx Futurisms. She firmly believes science fiction and fantasy build paths to a better, inclusive future, which is why her research focuses on diversity, inclusion, and justice as presented in the secondary worlds of the fantastic.Isiah Lavender III is Sterling-Goodman Professor of English at the University of Georgia, where he researches and teaches courses in African American literature and science fiction. He is the author/editor of six books, including Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement (2019) and the interview collection Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson (2023). He is currently completing the first draft of Future Pasts: Race and Speculative Fictions. Finally, he edits for Extrapolation.Grace L. Dillon (Anishinaabe) is Professor in the Indigenous Nations Studies Program at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate course on a range of interests including Native American and Indigenous studies, science fiction, Indigenous cinema, popular culture, race and social justice, and early modern literature. She is the editor of Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction (2012) and Hive of Dreams: Contemporary Science Fiction from the Pacific Northwest (2003).Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay is Associate Professor in Global Culture Studies at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo. He is Principal Investigator of the European Research Council project “CoFutures: Pathways to Possible Presents” as well as Principal Investigator of the Norwegian Research Council project “Science Fictionality” in addition to running the Holodeck, a state-of-the-art Games Research Lab at the University of Oslo.

"At the college or university level, The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms is a standalone text excellent for a Directed Study proposal of CoFuturisms at any undergraduate or graduate level as well as an extraordinarily appropriate text for World Literature or other intercultural and international studies... [the] entire Handbook may be considered a tool for sociopolitical as well as academic revolutionary thought, a disruption of disempowering assumptions and Eurocentric historicisms to suggest, implant and nurture the potential for transformative self-empowerment and culturally sensitive revolutionary thought."--Alexis Brooks de Vita, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts

• Introduction to CoFuturismsTaryne Jade TaylorPart IIndigenous FuturismsThe Future ImaginaryJason Edward Lewis‘Lands of Chemical Death’: Toxic Survivance in Bunky Echo-Hawk’s ‘Gas Masks as Medicine’ and Misha’s Red Spider White Web Stina AtteberyWater, Fire, Earth: Darcie Little Badger’s "Ku Ko Né Ä" SeriesKristina Andrea BaudemannContact, Rationalism, and Indigenous Queer Natures in Ellen Van Neerven’s "Water"Arlie AlizziWayfinding Pasifikafuturism: An Indigenous Science Fiction Vision of the Ocean in SpaceGina ColeCreating Collaborative Digital Poetic Worlds in the Video Poetry of Heid Erdrich and Kathy Jetñil-KiijinerKasey Jones-MatronaIndigenous Young Adult DystopiasGraham J. MurphyCentering Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer FuturismsChannette RomeroBlackfella Futurism: Speculative Fiction Grounded in Grassroots Sovereignty PoliticsMykaela SaundersAnthologizing the Indigenous Environmental Imaginary: Moonshot Volume 3 and Ecocritical FuturismsConrad ScottSpeculative Landscapes of Contemporary North American Indigenous FictionJulia SiepakRussell Bates (Kiowa): Eco-SF and Indigenous FuturismsPatrick SharpWelcome to the World of Tomorrow: Terrestrial Sovereignty and Decolonial Apocalypse in Indigenous Futurist WritingAnne StewartCoding Potawatomi Cosmologies: Elements of Bodwéwadmi FuturismsBlaire Morseau(Re)writing and (Re)beading: Understanding Indigenous Women’s Roles in theCreation of Indigenous FuturismsEmily C. Van AlstOkinawa Q (an Uckinanchu Futurism): Okinawans Rectify the Unbalanced View of Nature Through Tokusatsu Television and FilmKenrick H. Kamiya-YoshidaPart IILatinx FuturismsThe Economic Migrant and the Specter of Permanence in Why Cybraceros?, The Rag Doll Plagues, and Walk on Water Catherine S. RamírezThe Creative Technologists of ADÁL’s Out of Focus Nuyoricans and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man Matthew David GoodwinIndigenous and Western Sciences in Carlos Hernandez’s The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria Joy Sanchez-TaylorConjurando poderes de existencia: Depictions of Sabidurías in the Latin American Speculative Fiction Series, Siempre Bruja Vanessa J. AguilarUtopic Rage: Transforming the Future Through Narratives of Black Feminine Monstrosity and RageCassandra ScherrGrounding the Future – Locating Senior’s "Grung" Poetics in Tobias Buckell’s Speculative FictionJacinth HowardRecursive Origins and Distributed Cognitive Assemblages in Anthony Joseph’s The African Origins of UFOs Liam WilbyAlejandro Morales’ The Rag Doll Plagues: Chican@/Latinx Futurism – Between Intra-History and UtopiaDaniel SchreinerProsthetic Visions, Bodily Horrors, and Decolonial Options in Madre Márton ÁrvaAmazofuturism, Indigenous Futurism, Afrofuturism and Sertãopunk in Brazilian Science Fiction: an OverviewVítor Castelõs Gama with Alan de Sá and G.G. DinizChicanx Futurist Performances: Guillermo Gómez-Peña and the La Pocha Nostra Territorial CartographiesEduardo Barros-GrelaCrossing Merfolk: mermaids and the Middle Passage in African Diasporic CultureJalondra A. DavisBrazilian Afrofuturism as a Social TechnologyPatrick BrockNotes Towards Chicanafuturity / Dispatches from Northern AztlánLysa RiveraToward a Mexican American FuturismDavid BowlesSome Kind of Tomorrowire’ne lara silvaPart IIIAsian, Middle East, and Other FuturismsLet a hundred sinofuturisms bloomVirginia L. Conn and Gabriele de SetaA Daoist Reading of Hao Jingfang’s Vagabonds Regina Kanyu Wang"In the future, no one is completely human": Posthuman Poetics in Sun Yung Shin’s Unbearable Splendor and Franny Choi’s Soft Science Claire StanfordThe New Gods: Merging the Ancient and the Contemporary of EgyptOmar Houssien and Srđan TunićFor Different Tomorrows: Speculative Analogy, Korean Futurisms, and Yoon Ha Lee’s "Ghostweight"Stephen Hong SohnSpeculating Superintelligent Machines in the Indian CybercultureGoutam Karmakar and Somasree SarkarInvasian, Takeover, and Disappearance: Post-Cold War Fear in Hong Kong SAR Sci-Fi FilmKenny K. K. NgConfucius No Say: Sino-Fi Fiction, Film, and Period DramaSheng-mei MaFrom Sexual Desire to Personal Freedom: The Portrayal of Women and Their Rights in Chen Quifan’s "G Stands for Goddess"Frederike Schneider-VielsäckerRendezvous with Rama (Rajya): The Golden Past and the Antekaal Thesis in India’s Anglophone Science FictionSami Ahmad KhanRestart the Play: On Cyclicality and the Indian Woman in the Theatrical Future of C Sharp, C Blunt Sheetala BhatSpeculative Hong Kong: Silky Potentials of a Living Science FictionEuan Auld and Casper Bruun JensenSophia Al-Maria, Gulf Futurism, and Architectural TemporalitiesShadya RadhiPart IVAfrican and African American FuturismsWaste Time: Bodily Fluids and AfrofuturitySofia SamatarGenres of Resistance toward Revolution beyond the Human in Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You Rhya MoffittTransformative Cyborgs: Unsettling Humanity in Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti, The Book of Phoenix, and Lagoon Alyssa D. CollinsThe African Roots of Nnedi Okorafor’s Aliens and CyborgsDustin CrowleyFuturism(s) and Futuristic Themes in Modern African PoetryDike Okoro"They Say I’m Hopeless": Jane McKeene Talks Back as Black Girls Do—Interlocking Oppressions and Justina Ireland’s Dread Nation Damaris C. Dunn"the strength of no separation": A Poethics of Inseparability After the End of the WorldJess A. GoldbergAfricanfuturism as Decolonial Dreamwork and Developmental Rebellion"Jenna N. Hanchey"But I’m right here": The Curious Case of Killmonger and the Failures of Utopian Desire in Marvel’s Black Panther Jasmine MooreComing Together, "Free, Whole, Decolonized": Reading Black Feminisms in Tochi Onyebuchi’s Riot Baby P. Alexander MilesEngaging Second-Person Present – Metafiction and Stereotypes in Violet Allen’s "The Venus Effect"Päivi Väätänen"Can You Feel It": Michael Jackson, Afrofuturism, and Building the Jacksonverse Natasha Bailey-WalkerAfrofuturistic Storytelling in Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God"Piper Kendrix WilliamsThe Middle Passage to the Anthropocene: Eco-Humanist Futures in Black Women’s PoetryMarta Werbanowska