(Re)imagining African futures
Wakanda and the politics of transnational Blackness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21740787 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Godfried Asante (0000-0002-2595-2687, San Diego State University, corresponding author), Godfried A Asante (San Diego State University), Gloria Nziba Pindi (California State University, San Marcos) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 220-228 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1535-8593 • E-ISSN: 1535-8593 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15358593.2020.1778072 |
| OpenAlex | W3044866276 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
Black Panther (2018) is now one of the most popular Hollywood movies across the globe featuring a predominantly Black cast. Its success lies not only in economic value, but also in its ability to present universal concerns of power, pride, and humanity from global Black perspectives. In this essay, we analyze Black Panther through the lens of postcolonial cultural critique guided by Afrofuturism to examine how the movie misrepresents itself as a vehicle for unifying complex histories of continental Africans and African diasporic perspectives on Blackness, home, and belonging. We argue that Black Panther’s Afrofuturist unifying and codifying theme of Blackness, as transnationally shared intimate relations, while transformative, yields too much to Western neocolonial and cinematic fantasies about “Africa.” We conclude by stating that while Black Panther is a welcome shift from the dominant white Western gaze; it also deserves a critical reading as an ongoing and imperfect project of emancipation from the dominant gaze
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Emancipation · Hollywood · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Pride · Sociology · White (mutation) · Gender Studies · History · Law · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
Speculative vertices, Ogun mythopoesis, and (the) fourth/further stage(s)
Popular media and its ability to (re)form perceptions about Africa and Blackness
Negotiating Stereotypes in the Film Black Panther
‘Just because something works doesn’t mean it can’t be improved’
The Vacillating Imagination of ‘Us' in Black Panther (2018)
Show Them Who You Are!”
The self is embodied”
(Dis)Connecting with the USA
Postcolonial Superheroes
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |