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From Nigerian Culture to Science Fiction: Afrofuturism, Posthumanism and African Folklore in Nnedi Okorafor and Tade Thompson

Bawin, Joachim
(2020)

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Supervisors
De Bruyn, Ben
Faculty
Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres
Degree label
Master [60] en langues et lettres modernes, orientation générale
Abstract
This paper aims to analyze the contemporary African trend in science fiction literature, with the comparative analysis of two authors of Nigerian origin: Nnedi Okorafor (''Lagoon'') and Tade Thompson (''Rosewater''). The three main fields of research for this analysis are the concepts of afrofuturism, posthumanism (in link with the different nonhuman figures of the alien, cyborg and animal) and African folklore. Those three fields are examined in the selected corpus to bring to light the shared concerns of the authors as well as to see how they use differently this material. The first chapter sees how the blending of genres contributes to an afrofuturist message and how the authors take into account several crises, especially the anthropocene. The second chapter analyzes three nonhuman figures (alien, cyborg and animal), their manifestations in the corpus and how all of them contribute to a posthumanist understanding of the novels. Finally, the third chapter analyzes how the authors use the same African folkloric material in different manners, and how they take a stance regarding this shared background.