Andrea Hairston has a piece, "Dismantling the Echo Chamber," reviewing
Africa SF, ed. Mark Bould, at the
Los Angeles Review of Books. Here's a little taste:
Rewriting the rules that define/constitute the fantasy we call reality
in order to dismantle colonial structures and transform said reality is
an incredible challenge. Black to the future was/is a radical,
dangerous, and daring dream—an impossibility. Science fiction and
fantasy (sf&f) is a rehearsal of the impossible, an ideal realm for
redefinition and reinvention. For Africans and their descendants in the
diaspora, decolonizing our mind/body/spirits was/is an on-going sf&f
project. Freedom is a Magic If. Indeed, for all of us, humans,
non-human animals, and plant-life, recovering the past and decolonizing
the future is a critical survival question in the subjunctive case. How
might we coevolve, but be different, together in a (post)colonial empire
hell-bent on global monoculture, the commodification of identity, and
the monetization of everything? What of our past should we carry with
us? What might we chose to leave behind? What new possibilities could we
embrace and manifest?
Read the whole thing
here.
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