The article is devoted to the literary analysis of the story collection “Dominoes at the Crossroads” (2020) by Kaie Kellough as an Afrofuturist artifact of the newest culture of Canada. Afrofuturism itself is considered as a critical method and art movement, which, with the help of documentary and fantasy narratives, is designed to talk about the true experience of African Canadians and Caribbean Canadians in North America. According to the author of the article, due to the policy of the Canadian government and its historical denial of the legitimate existence of the institution of slavery, the facts of slavery remain unexposed. It all results in the following: the traditional Afrofuturist dyad ‘factual / fictional’ is implemented in the newest Canadian literature more differently than in the Afrofuturist literatures of other countries in the Americas. The actual impossibility of access to documents that testify to the consequences of slavery in Canada provides the Afrofuturist arts of this country with a powerful fantasy narrative, hybridization of artistic codes, and radical philosophical concepts.
For citation:
Martirosian G.E. Literary Afrofuturism in Canada of the 21st century: (On example of “Dominoes at the Crossroads” by K. Kellough), Ivanovo State University Bulletin, Series: Humanities, 2022, iss. 2, pp. 11—20.