Afrofuturistとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Afro- +‎ futurist

名詞

Afrofuturist (複数形 Afrofuturists)

1. A person who works in the genre of Afrofuturism.
   • 2013, Ytasha L. Womack, Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture, →ISBN, page 17:

     Afrofuturists sought to unearth the missing history of people of African descent and their roles in science, technology, and science fiction.

形容詞

Afrofuturist (comparative more Afrofuturist, superlative most Afrofuturist)

1. Relating to Afrofuturism.

   Synonym: Afrofuturistic

   • 2010, Tammy Kernodle, Horace Maxille, Emmett G. Price III, Encyclopedia of African American Music, ABC-CLIO (→ISBN), page 9:

     Drawing on tropes of alienation and abduction, Afrofuturist musicians have used this idea to satirize media representations of a race-free future, commenting on the fact that the few black characters in mainstream sci-fi almost always portrayed stereotypical white characteristics or “acted white”.

関連する語

• Afrofuturism
• Afrofuturistic

Further reading

• Afrofuturism on Wikipedia.