Using a question posed by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as a launching point, this essay
asks whether speculative fiction has value to African and African diasporic Literature, and …

As is the case with many literary and filmic genres, the term “speculative fiction” has been
debated over the years.“Speculative fiction” is often used as a synonym for “science fiction” …

“I am not an African.” The British-Caribbean writer Caryl Phillips was hit with this seemingly
simple but forceful realization in early 2003, while sitting inside a one-story house …

In the introduction to her edited anthology So Long Been Dreaming (2004), Nalo Hopkinson
argues that postcolonial voices must engage with speculative fiction. While the genre has a …

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's short story “Jumping Monkey Hill” was inspired by its author's
experience at the inaugural workshop of the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2003, during …

Until recently, studies of postcolonial African novels emphasized the genre's relation to
anticolonial critique and its expression of collective resistance. In response to the …

summary In Narrative Paths: African Travel in Modern Fiction and Nonfiction, Kai Mikkonen
argues that early twentieth-century European travel writing, journal keeping, and fiction …

This paper examines a number of African-authored narratives (novels and film) in the light of
recent thinking about futurism and the role of speculative fiction as a means of envisioning …

In the last few years, several critics have suggested that the most significant contemporary
writing in South Africa is emerging in non-fictional modes. The work of authors like Antony …

My title refers to a Boat, a Mask, Two Photographers and a Manticore. These all come from
novels that I will be touching upon. These people and objects are signposts, providing an …