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Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Afrofuturism
In the wake of Marvel's Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the new FX series of Octavia Butler's Kindred, and the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2022 Much Ado About Nothing, this issue interrogates the beauty and performativity of Afrofuturism in Black theatre history, performance, dramatic literature, digital humanities, artistic leadership, pedagogy and praxis. We have assembled a group of diverse mediations on Afrofuturistic expressivity within dramatic literature from authors around the world.
Front Matter
From the Desk of the Editor: Introduction to the Black Theatre Review, Afrofuturism
Omiyẹmi (Artisia) Green
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Articles
Black Theater, Black Studies, and Afrofuturism: An Exploration of Past Present and Future
Leslie K Etienne
2023-07-19 Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Afrofuturism • 1-11
Incendiary Dramas: Black Theatre Classics and Afrofuturism
Isiah Lavender III
2023-07-19 Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Afrofuturism • 12-22
The Running "Black Man": An Afro-Dystopian Praxis in Directing Jackie Sibblies Drury’s We are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Südwestafrika, Between the Years 1884–1915.
D. Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson
2023-07-19 Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Afrofuturism • 23-55
Deconstructing Historical Knowledge in Toyin Abiodun’s The Trials of Afonja
Azeez Akinwumi Sesan
2023-07-19 Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Afrofuturism • 56-73
Performance Reviews
Performance Review: The Piano Lesson
Zachary F. Price
2023-07-19 Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Afrofuturism • 74-76
Performance Review: Sugar in Our Wounds
Bryan Schmidt
2023-07-19 Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Afrofuturism • 77-80
Performance Review: The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
Dave Peterson
2023-07-19 Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Afrofuturism • 81-83
Book Reviews
Book Review: Afrofuturism in Black Panther: Gender, Identity, and the Re-Making of Blackness
Concetta A. Williams
2023-07-19 Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Afrofuturism • 84-87
Book Review: Afrofuturism: The History of Black Futures
N. LaQuis Harkins
2023-07-19 Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Afrofuturism • 88-91