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| - | '''Afrofuturism''', or '''afro-futurism''', is an [[African diaspora]] [[subculture]] whose thinkers and artists see [[science]], [[technology]] and [[science fiction]] as means of exploring the [[black people|black experience]] and finding new strategies to overcome [[oppression]]. | + | '''Walter Ellis Mosley''' (born January 12, 1952) is an American [[novelist]], most widely recognized for his [[crime fiction]]. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective [[Easy Rawlins]], a black [[private investigator]] and [[World War II]] [[veteran]] living in the [[Watts, Los Angeles, California|Watts]] neighborhood of [[Los Angeles]]; they are perhaps his most popular works. |
| - | In the 1990s a number of cultural critics, notably [[Mark Dery]] in his 1995 essay ''[[Black to the Future]]'', began to write about the features they saw as common in African-American science fiction, music and art. Dery dubbed this phenomenon “afrofuturism”, launching a small [[new]] [[social movement]]. | + | ==Works== |
| - | ==Writers== | + | ===Easy Rawlins mysteries=== |
| - | * [[LeVar Burton]] | + | *''[[Devil in a Blue Dress]]'' (1990) |
| - | * [[Octavia Butler]] | + | *''A Red Death'' (1991) |
| - | * [[Samuel R. Delany]] | + | *''White Butterfly'' (1992) |
| - | * [[Mark Dery]] | + | *''Black Betty'' (1994) |
| - | * [[Kodwo Eshun]] | + | *''A Little Yellow Dog'' (1996) |
| - | * [[Nalo Hopkinson]] | + | *''Gone Fishin''' (1997) |
| - | * [[Paul D. Miller]] | + | *''Bad Boy Brawly Brown'' (2002) |
| - | * [[Walter Mosley]] | + | *''Six Easy Pieces'' (2003) |
| - | * [[Alondra Nelson]] | + | *''Little Scarlet'' (2004) |
| - | * [[Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu]] | + | *''Cinnamon Kiss'' (2005) |
| - | * [[Ishmael Reed]] | + | *''Blonde Faith'' (2007) |
| - | * [[George S. Schuyler]] | + | |
| - | * [[Alexander G. Weheliye]] | + | |
| - | ==Fiction== | + | ===Fearless Jones mysteries=== |
| + | *''Fearless Jones'' (2001) | ||
| + | *''Fear Itself'' (2003) | ||
| + | *''Fear of the Dark'' (2006) | ||
| - | * ''[[Black Empire]]'' | + | ===Leonid McGill mysteries=== |
| - | * ''[[Black No More]]'' | + | *''The Long Fall'' (2009) |
| - | * ''[[Futureland]]'' | + | *''Known to Evil'' (2010) |
| - | * ''[[Kindred (novel)|Kindred]]'' | + | *''When the Thrill Is Gone'' (2011) |
| - | * ''[[The Parable of the Sower]]'' | + | *''All I Did Was Shoot My Man'' (2012) |
| - | * ''[[The Salteaters]]'' | + | |
| - | * ''[[Brown Girl in the Ring]]'' | + | |
| - | * ''[[Dark Matter (series)|Dark Matter]]: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora'' | + | |
| - | * ''[[Apex Hides the Hurt]]'' | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Intuitionist]]'' | + | |
| - | * ''[[Blue Light (novel)|Blue Light]]'' | + | |
| - | * ''[[Aftermath (LeVar Burton novel)|Aftermath]]'' | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Shadow Speaker]]'' | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Ear, the Eye and the Arm]]'' | + | |
| - | ==Film and television== | + | ===Science fiction=== |
| + | *''[[Blue Light (novel)|Blue Light]]'' (1998) | ||
| + | *''[[Futureland|Futureland: Nine Stories of an Imminent World]]'' (2001) | ||
| + | *''The Wave'' (2005) | ||
| + | *''47'' (2005) | ||
| + | *''The Gift of Fire / On the Head of a Pin'' (2012) | ||
| - | ===Film=== | + | ===Socrates Fortlow books=== |
| - | * ''[[The Brother from Another Planet]]'' | + | *''[[Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned]]'' (1997) |
| - | * ''[[Gayniggers from Outer Space]]'' | + | *''Walkin' the Dog'' (1999) |
| - | * ''[[The Last Angel Of History]]'' | + | *''The Right Mistake'' (2008) |
| - | * ''[[The Matrix]]'' | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Matrix Reloaded]]'' | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Matrix Revolutions]]'' | + | |
| - | * ''[[Space Is the Place]]'' | + | |
| + | ===For young adults=== | ||
| + | *''47'' (2005) | ||
| - | ==Music== | + | ===Other novels=== |
| - | :''[[Afro-electro]] | + | *''RL's Dream'' (1995) |
| - | The afrofuturist approach to music was first propounded by the late [[Sun Ra]]. Born in Alabama, Sun Ra's music coalesced in Chicago in the mid-1950s, when he and his Arkestra began recording music that drew from [[hard bop]] and modal sources, but created a new synthesis which also used [[afrocentric]] and space-themed titles to reflects Ra's linkage of ancient African culture, specifically [[Afrocentrism#Egypt and the argument of African cultural unity|Egypt]], and the cutting edge of the [[Space Age]]. Ra's film [[Space Is the Place]] shows the Arkestra in Oakland in the mid-1970s in full space regalia, with a lot of science fiction imagery as well as other comedic and musical material. | + | *''The Man in My Basement'' (2004) |
| + | *''Walking the Line'' (2005), a novella in the ''Transgressions'' series | ||
| + | *''[[Fortunate Son (novel)|Fortunate Son]]'' (2006) | ||
| + | *''The Tempest Tales'' (2008) | ||
| + | *''The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey'' (2010) | ||
| - | Afrofuturist ideas were taken up in 1976 by [[George Clinton (funk musician)|George Clinton]] and his bands [[Parliament (band)|Parliament]] and [[Funkadelic]] with his magnum opus ''[[Mothership Connection]]'' and the subsequent ''[[The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein]]'' and [[P Funk Earth Tour]]. In the thematic underpinnings to [[P-Funk mythology]] ("pure cloned funk"), Clinton in his alter ego [[Starchild]] spoke of "certified Afronauts, capable of funkitizing galaxies." | + | ===Erotica=== |
| + | *''Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel'' (2006) | ||
| + | *''Diablerie'' (2007) | ||
| - | In 2005, Solstice, a progressive jazz-rock band lead by [[Public Enemy (band)]] guitarist, Khari Wynn, under the stage name of "James Equinox" introduced a jazz-rock evolution to the Afrofuturist style. This modern interpretation remains true to the pace set by Sun Ra, including a "revolving door" of musicians. | + | ===Non-fiction books=== |
| + | *''Workin' on the Chain Gang: Shaking off the Dead Hand of History'' (2000) | ||
| + | *''What Next: An African American Initiative Toward World Peace'' (2003) | ||
| + | *''Life Out of Context: Which Includes a Proposal for the Non-violent Takeover of the House of Representatives'' (2006) | ||
| + | *''This Year You Write Your Novel'' (2007) | ||
| + | *''Twelve Steps Toward Political Revelation'' (2011) ISBN 978-1-56858-642-7 | ||
| - | [[Acid rap]] also often deals with Afrofuturist subject matter. In 2000, [[Deltron 3030]] rapper Deltron Zero (aka [[Del tha Funkee Homosapien]]) would refer to similar themes with lyrics about "intergallactic rap battles" and a computer virus that could "trash your whole computer system and revert you to papyrus". | + | ===Graphic novel=== |
| - | + | *''[[Maximum Fantastic Four]]'' (2005,with Stan Lee and Jack Kirby) | |
| - | ===Musicians=== | + | {{refend}} |
| - | * [[Cybotron]] | + | |
| - | * [[Alice Coltrane]] | + | |
| - | * [[DJ Spooky]] | + | |
| - | * [[Kool Keith]] | + | |
| - | * [[Drexciya]] | + | |
| - | * [[Lee Perry]] ([[Dub, Scratch, and the Black Star]], by [[Erik Davis]]) | + | |
| - | * [[George Clinton (funk musician)|George Clinton]] | + | |
| - | * [[Sun Ra]] | + | |
| - | * [[Deltron 3030]] | + | |
| - | * [[Bernie Worrell]] | + | |
| - | + | ||
| - | ==Visual Arts== | + | |
| - | * [[Rammellzee]] | + | |
| - | * [[Pedro Bell]] | + | |
| + | ==Films and television== | ||
| + | *''[[List of Fallen Angels episodes|Fallen Angels: Fearless]] (1995) (TV) | ||
| + | *''[[Devil in a Blue Dress (film)|Devil in a Blue Dress]]'' (1995) | ||
| + | *''[[Always Outnumbered]]'' (1998) (TV) | ||
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Walter Ellis Mosley (born January 12, 1952) is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins, a black private investigator and World War II veteran living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles; they are perhaps his most popular works.
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Works
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Easy Rawlins mysteries
- Devil in a Blue Dress (1990)
- A Red Death (1991)
- White Butterfly (1992)
- Black Betty (1994)
- A Little Yellow Dog (1996)
- Gone Fishin' (1997)
- Bad Boy Brawly Brown (2002)
- Six Easy Pieces (2003)
- Little Scarlet (2004)
- Cinnamon Kiss (2005)
- Blonde Faith (2007)
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Fearless Jones mysteries
- Fearless Jones (2001)
- Fear Itself (2003)
- Fear of the Dark (2006)
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Leonid McGill mysteries
- The Long Fall (2009)
- Known to Evil (2010)
- When the Thrill Is Gone (2011)
- All I Did Was Shoot My Man (2012)
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Science fiction
- Blue Light (1998)
- Futureland: Nine Stories of an Imminent World (2001)
- The Wave (2005)
- 47 (2005)
- The Gift of Fire / On the Head of a Pin (2012)
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Socrates Fortlow books
- Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned (1997)
- Walkin' the Dog (1999)
- The Right Mistake (2008)
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For young adults
- 47 (2005)
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Other novels
- RL's Dream (1995)
- The Man in My Basement (2004)
- Walking the Line (2005), a novella in the Transgressions series
- Fortunate Son (2006)
- The Tempest Tales (2008)
- The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey (2010)
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Erotica
- Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel (2006)
- Diablerie (2007)
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Non-fiction books
- Workin' on the Chain Gang: Shaking off the Dead Hand of History (2000)
- What Next: An African American Initiative Toward World Peace (2003)
- Life Out of Context: Which Includes a Proposal for the Non-violent Takeover of the House of Representatives (2006)
- This Year You Write Your Novel (2007)
- Twelve Steps Toward Political Revelation (2011) ISBN 978-1-56858-642-7
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Graphic novel
- Maximum Fantastic Four (2005,with Stan Lee and Jack Kirby)
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Films and television
- Fallen Angels: Fearless (1995) (TV)
- Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
- Always Outnumbered (1998) (TV)
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