Introduction by Prof. Dr. Bernhard Huss

A cooperation of: Italienzentrum, Frankreichzentrum, Dahlem Humanities Center (all Freie Universität Berlin) and the Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen

Please register by mail (santangelo.thea@fu-berlin.de) until Dec., 16.

The project financed by the Junior Host Program of the Dahlem Humanities Center of the Free University Berlin, is designed as a comparative study of Italian Futurism as avantgardistic movement on the one side and African-francophone imaginations of the future: ‘Afro-becoming’ (‘Afro-devenirs’) on the other side. It sets out to discuss the meaning and place of Africa in the futurist work of F. T. Marinetti and in the literary production of afro-devenirs writers. Through the comparative approach, it provides a theoretical discussion on concepts such as ‘Technology’, ‘Community’ and ‘Temporality’.