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Tlotlo Tsamaase Is Writing the African Dystopia of the Next Decade

A great deal of dystopian fiction still imagines collapse through familiar Western imagery:surveillance states,megacities,corporate authoritarianism,cold technological futures. Tlotlo Tsamaase writes something stranger. Her fiction feels haunted...
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Mia Couto’s Sleepwalking Land Is What Post-War Fiction Should Look Like

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Yvonne Vera’s Without a Name and the Dystopia of the Unspeakable

Yvonne Vera’s Without a Name is not usually discussed as dystopian fiction. It is categorized instead as literary fiction,African literature,postcolonial fiction,or feminist writing. But reading the...
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Sembène’s Xala: The Post-Colonial Dystopia Disguised as Satire

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Tlotlo Tsamaase Is Writing the African Dystopia of the Next Decade

A great deal of dystopian fiction still imagines collapse through familiar Western imagery:surveillance states,megacities,corporate authoritarianism,cold technological futures. Tlotlo Tsamaase writes something stranger. Her fiction feels haunted...

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Tlotlo Tsamaase Is Writing the African Dystopia of the Next Decade

A great deal of dystopian fiction still imagines collapse through familiar Western imagery:surveillance states,megacities,corporate authoritarianism,cold technological futures. Tlotlo Tsamaase writes something stranger. Her fiction feels haunted...

Mia Couto’s Sleepwalking Land Is What Post-War Fiction Should Look Like

Mia Couto’s Sleepwalking Land does not read like most novels about war. There are no grand military strategies.No heroic battle narratives.No clean political explanations dividing...

Yvonne Vera’s Without a Name and the Dystopia of the Unspeakable

Yvonne Vera’s Without a Name is not usually discussed as dystopian fiction. It is categorized instead as literary fiction,African literature,postcolonial fiction,or feminist writing. But reading the...
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Tlotlo Tsamaase Is Writing the African Dystopia of the Next Decade

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A great deal of dystopian fiction still imagines collapse through familiar Western imagery:surveillance states,megacities,corporate authoritarianism,cold technological futures. Tlotlo Tsamaase writes something stranger. Her fiction feels haunted...

Mia Couto’s Sleepwalking Land Is What Post-War Fiction Should Look Like

Charis Tom -
Mia Couto’s Sleepwalking Land does not read like most novels about war. There are no grand military strategies.No heroic battle narratives.No clean political explanations dividing...

Yvonne Vera’s Without a Name and the Dystopia of the Unspeakable

Charis Tom -
Yvonne Vera’s Without a Name is not usually discussed as dystopian fiction. It is categorized instead as literary fiction,African literature,postcolonial fiction,or feminist writing. But reading the...

Sembène’s Xala: The Post-Colonial Dystopia Disguised as Satire

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Ousmane Sembène’s Xala is usually described as satire. And it is. The novel is funny,absurd,sharp,humiliating,and deliberately theatrical. Sembène mocks political elites with ruthless precision, exposing corruption,...

Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood Is a Dystopia. We Have Never Read It as One.

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Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood is rarely described as dystopian fiction. It is usually categorized as literary realism.Postcolonial fiction.Feminist literature.African social commentary. All of those...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun Read as a Dystopia of Witness

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There is nothing futuristic about Half of a Yellow Sun. It is rooted in a specific history, the Nigerian Civil War, and grounded in...

A Practical Reader’s Guide to the Tradition the Canon Forgot

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Across ten posts, I have been arguing that there is a body of dystopian fiction the canon has largely ignored, and that the apparatus...

The African Dystopia Was Never Regional. It Was Early.

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There is a quiet rearrangement happening in the way people read political fiction, and most readers have not yet noticed it. For most of the...

What The Handmaid’s Tale Looks Like When You Read It After African Dystopia

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Here's the post. Five posts into the African and diasporic dystopia vertical, the right move is to pivot once more. Not another writer deep-dive...

The Western Dystopia Mourns. The African Dystopia Imagines for the First Time.

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There is a structural assumption built into almost every canonical dystopian novel of the twentieth century, and most readers have never noticed it because...