A CRITICAL STUDY OF BUTLER’S KINDRED AND OKOROAFOR’S WHO FEARS DEATH
ABSTRACT Afrofuturism is a counter-future saddled with three goals—to rewrite history, critique society and reclaim the future. This paper illustrates that Butler’s Kindred and Okoroafor’s Who Fears Death distinctively captures the Afrofuturist view of the past, present and future seen through the black lens. It does so by examining comparatively how the plot, thematic preoccupations and characters in the novel explicatively portray the manifestations of Afrofuturism through rewriting, recreating and ...
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