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Utopian glimmers in African climate dystopias by Ayerdhal, Jean-Marc Ligny, Wanuri Kahiu and Nick Wood

Authors: Hamza, Khadr;

Utopian glimmers in African climate dystopias by Ayerdhal, Jean-Marc Ligny, Wanuri Kahiu and Nick Wood

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Cet article compare les univers dystopiques imaginés par Ayerdhal dans Demain, une oasis, Jean-Marc Ligny dans AquaTM, Nick Wood dans Water Must Fall et Wanuri Kahiu dans Pumzi. Ces fictions climatiques décrivent des futurs africains marqués par des variations apocalyptiques autour de la désertification et de la pénurie d’eau. Elles activent des images afropessimistes pour mettre en scène des contextes dystopiques, propices à l’oppression des populations locales et à la spoliation des ressources naturelles du continent. Les auteurs n’en ménagent pas moins, dans chacun de ces futurs cauchemardesques, des perspectives de mondes nouveaux portant des espérances utopiques. Celles-ci émergent des mouvements de résistance locaux qui esquissent, souvent à travers des figures féminines, les promesses d’un avenir différent : la possibilité d’Afriques alternatives, émancipées et ambitieuses qui entendent forger de nouveaux récits et des réponses originales à la demande d’avenir du continent.

This article compares the dystopian universes imagined by Ayerdhal in Demain, une oasis, Jean-Marc Ligny in AquaTM, Nick Wood in Water Must Fall and Wanuri Kahiu in Pumzi. These climate fictions describe African futures marked by apocalyptic variations around desertification and water scarcity. They activate Afropessimistic images to stage dystopian contexts, conducive to the oppression of local populations and the plundering of the continent’s natural resources. Nevertheless, the authors provide in each of these nightmarish futures, perspectives of new worlds carrying utopian hopes. These emerge from local resistance movements that sketch, often through female figures, the promises of a different future : the possibility of alternative, emancipated and ambitious Africas that intend to forge new narratives and original responses to the continent’s demand for a future.

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African science fiction, [SHS.LITT] Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature, climate fiction, futur africain, écofiction, African future, science-fiction africaine, ecofiction, fiction climatique

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