Question
These two terms begin the title of a 2020 LARB essay by Hope Wabuke that posits that their “main defining difference” is the way they center themselves around “the concept of 'American'.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Give these two terms for approaches to a certain cultural aesthetic. The newer of them was coined by Nnedi Okorafor in part as a replacement for the older, which is attributed to white critic Mark Dery.
ANSWER: Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism [accept answers in either order; accept word forms; prompt on partial answers]
[10e] Wabuke's essay also considers the umbrella term “Black Speculative Literature,” noting that the original term “speculative literature” is attributed to this “problematic” author of Stranger in a Strange Land.
ANSWER: Robert A. Heinlein [or Robert Anson Heinlein] (n.b. quotes around “problematic” are because it's a direct quote from the essay; Heinlein had complicated and thorny views on a lot of issues!)
[10m] Dery coined the term “Afrofuturism” in the essay "Black to the Future," which includes an interview with this gay Black author of Nova, Dhalgren, and Babel-17.
ANSWER: Samuel R. Delany [or Chip Delany]
Summary
| 2023 BHSU @ Berkeley | 03/18/2023 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Maryland | 03/11/2023 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU Online | 04/15/2023 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Sheffield | 04/15/2023 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Waterloo | 04/15/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Yale | 04/08/2023 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| meet the new weird, same as the old weird | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UG Championship Players (and Mazin) | nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry | Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |