The creolized future – La Liberté

Michael Roch “Guest of the Maison d’Ailleurs in Yverdon, the Martinican writer marries cyberpunk aesthetics and Afrofuturist poetics in a choral and Creole novel. Powerful.

This is a new territory of the possible. However, it has been a few years since science fiction made its return to the forefront of the contemporary imagination; Orwell is reissued, Métal hurlant is resuscitated, Dune is Hollywoodized… Our horizons are certainly in great need of renewal. But this literature of alternative worlds has remained very monochromatic in the French-speaking world, even though Afrofuturism has been flourishing for several decades both in the United States and on the African continent. And here finally arrive, in a vibrant and wonderfully hybrid French, these futures from elsewhere!

We remember Rouge impératrice (2019), a broad and ambitious political anticipation by Léonora Miano, whose prose, shot through with spirituality, animism and poetry, was tinged with idi

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