Afro-Surrealism

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Afro-Surrealism (also Afro-surrealism, AfroSurrealism) is an artistic and cultural movement rooted in the experiences, histories, and traditions of people of African descent. This movement combines traditional surrealist imagery, magical realism, and mythology with Black identity, history, and contemporary life. Afro-Surrealism is heavily influenced by other movements such as Negritude and the Harlem Renaissance, and uses absurdity and some supernatural elements to explore the relationship between lived experiences and reality. The term Afro-Surreal was first coined by Amiri Baraka in 1974 to describe the work of Henry Dumas. In 2009, D. Scot Miller published "The Afro-Surreal Manifesto" to further develop the concept into an artistic framework. Afro-Surrealism is practiced and embodied in music, photography, film, the visual arts, poetry, and fiction, with notable practitioners including Ted Joans, Bob Kaufman, Krista Franklin, Aimé Césaire, Suzanne Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, René...

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