Question
Answer the following about Mark Dery’s 1994 essay “Black to the Future,” which coined the term “Afrofuturism,” for 10 points each.
[10m] While listing the four African-American novelists who write science fiction, Dery included Octavia Butler, the author of this novel in which Dana time travels between her Los Angeles home and a slave plantation.
ANSWER: Kindred
[10h] For the essay, Dery interviewed Samuel Delany, who wrote a sci-fi novel in which Rydra Wong learns a weaponized language named for this place.
ANSWER: Babel [accept Babel-17]
[10e] Dery states that “Afrofuturism percolates” through works in this form like the Hardware series. Other Afrofuturist works in this form include a series by Ta-Nehisi (“tah-nuh-HAH-see”) Coates about Black Panther.
ANSWER: graphic novel [or comic book]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
Data
| Maryland A (Grad) | GWU A (UG) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| UNC A (Grad) | Liberty B (DII) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| UNC D (DII) | UNC B (UG) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Virginia A (UG) | Virginia C (UG) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |