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Reckoning: Queer Futurity,Byte,” and “Screwed”—both as musical numbers and as narrative components of the emotion picture—the chapter illustrates the different ways in which queerness is positioned as a central component in Monáe’s sf world-building.

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2662-8562 futurism to engage with Black feminism, sexual identity & ra This book offers an in-depth analysis of Janelle Monáe’s .Dirty Computer., an Afrofuturist project that appeared simultaneously as a concept album and a visual album or “emotion picture” in spring 2018. In the previous decade, Janelle Moná

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,Janelle Monáe’s Afrofuturism,elmingly Eurocentric. It provides background on Janelle Monáe’s history as a musician and performer who has helped revive this movement in the twenty-first century, and whose earlier work has drawn heavily on the traditions of . and .. The chapter then introduces ., describing how this ambitious tra

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Reckoning: Queer Futurity,sf) genre. José Esteban Muñoz’s concept of queer futurity plays a central role in this framework, which is first related to the larger . project before expanding and applying this in an analysis of the album’s “Reckoning” section. Through a close reading of the tracks “Crazy, Classic Life,” “Take a

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