Beyond Anglo-Saxon Afrofuturism: Caribbean Futurism and Santería in Rita Indiana’s La mucama de Omicunlé

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  • Maria Cristina Caruso Università della Calabria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/KAM.22.24223

Keywords:

Hispanic Caribbean, cultural identity, speculative literature, cultural studies

Abstract

The term Afrofuturism refers to an aesthetic-artistic label coined in the 1990s to indicate cultural products in which imaginary hypertechnological futures welcome the triumphant return of pre-diasporic African identity in a context of overcoming racial differences. However, the term Afrofuturism is not easily adaptable to speculative products produced outside the African-American framework. Indeed, in different chronotopological contexts, such as the Hispanic Caribbean, the elements that refer to colonial and Afro-diasporic history acquire original features. This paper proposes a descriptive analysis of the novel La mucama de Omicunlé (2015) by the Dominican writer Rita Indiana as an example of the Caribbean futurist speculative-projective current.

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Maria Cristina Caruso, Università della Calabria

Maria Cristina Caruso es estudiante predoctoral del Curso de Doctorado en Estudios Humanísticos por la Universidad de la Calabria. Su investigación se enfoca en el análisis sociocultural de los productos literarios especulativos del Caribe Hispano, en particular se ocupa de la obra del escritor cubano Erick J. Mota y de la escritora dominicana Rita Indiana. Su perspectiva de análisis se mueve hacia una descolonización de la crítica literaria finalizada a la deconstrucción de las categorías de definición canónicas occidentocentricas y heteropatriarcales.  

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Published

2023-12-22

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Caruso, M. C. (2023). Beyond Anglo-Saxon Afrofuturism: Caribbean Futurism and Santería in Rita Indiana’s La mucama de Omicunlé. Kamchatka. Revista De análisis Cultural., (22), 263–287. https://doi.org/10.7203/KAM.22.24223
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No. 22 (2023): Futurismo afrolatinoamericano, ciencia ficción neoindigenista y postindigenismo latinoamericano

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Futurismo afrolatinoamericano, ciencia ficción neoindigenista y postindigenismo latinoamericano

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