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Notes
1 This and all translations from Portuguese by the author.
2 Kabral's cyborg characters are a nod to Mark Dery's canonical definition of Afrofuturism as a form of “signification that appropriates images of technology and a prosthetically-enhanced future” (180).
3 Ytasha Womak, for example, asks: “Were stories about aliens really just metaphors for the experience of blacks in the Americas?” (Citation2013: 17).
4 Kabral’s blog also serves as a platform for the dissemination of young Afrocentric artists, such as Thaís Lima, whose print appears in the entry “Artigo e atividades bem didáticos sobre AFROFUTURISMO” (Very Didactic Essay and Activities about AFROFUTURISM)
5 The printed text was available on 07/04/2019, and the blog notation appeared on 08/20/2020.
6 In an entry from June 2020, Kabral proposes a new moniker for Afrocentric, speculative fictions that centralize African religions–Macumbapunk.
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Leila Lehnen
Leila Lehnen is an associate professor in the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. She specializes in contemporary Brazilian literature and culture. Her book Citizenship and Crisis in Contemporary Brazilian Literature (2013) examines the portrayal and critique of differentiated citizenship in contemporary Brazilian literature. She has published articles on citizenship, social justice, human rights, and ecocriticism in Brazilian and Spanish American literature.