Priscilla Dionne Layne is a professor of German at the University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill and the author of White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One: The (Im)possibility and Necessity of HopeChapter Two: Living with Postcolonial Specters in Michael GÖtting’s ContrapunctusChapter Three: Hope and Intergalactic Travel in Olivia Wenzel’s Mais in Deutschland und anderen Galaxien and We Are the UniverseChapter Four: Nonhuman Interlopers in Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Synchronicity and “Mr. GrÖttrup Sits Down”Chapter Five: Posthumanism and Digital Diaspora in Simone Dede Ayivi’s PerformancesConclusionNotesBibliography

“Out of This World offers an important dialogic interanimation of Afrofuturism and contemporary Black German literary, performative, and dramatic texts. This is a lucidly argued, theoretically sophisticated, timely, and compelling book.”—Alexander Ghedi Weheliye, Brown University“This study deftly analyzes a remarkably fresh array of innovative materials. Layne expertly weaves close readings of aesthetic form together with theoretical insights into the importance of Black German culture today for refining and revising transnational concepts of Afrofuturism.”— Leslie A. Adelson, Cornell University

Priscilla Dionne Layne is a professor of German at the University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill and the author of White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One: The (Im)possibility and Necessity of HopeChapter Two: Living with Postcolonial Specters in Michael GÖtting’s ContrapunctusChapter Three: Hope and Intergalactic Travel in Olivia Wenzel’s Mais in Deutschland und anderen Galaxien and We Are the UniverseChapter Four: Nonhuman Interlopers in Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Synchronicity and “Mr. GrÖttrup Sits Down”Chapter Five: Posthumanism and Digital Diaspora in Simone Dede Ayivi’s PerformancesConclusionNotesBibliography

“Out of This World offers an important dialogic interanimation of Afrofuturism and contemporary Black German literary, performative, and dramatic texts. This is a lucidly argued, theoretically sophisticated, timely, and compelling book.”—Alexander Ghedi Weheliye, Brown University“This study deftly analyzes a remarkably fresh array of innovative materials. Layne expertly weaves close readings of aesthetic form together with theoretical insights into the importance of Black German culture today for refining and revising transnational concepts of Afrofuturism.”— Leslie A. Adelson, Cornell University

Priscilla Dionne Layne is a professor of German at the University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill and the author of White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One: The (Im)possibility and Necessity of HopeChapter Two: Living with Postcolonial Specters in Michael GÖtting’s ContrapunctusChapter Three: Hope and Intergalactic Travel in Olivia Wenzel’s Mais in Deutschland und anderen Galaxien and We Are the UniverseChapter Four: Nonhuman Interlopers in Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Synchronicity and “Mr. GrÖttrup Sits Down”Chapter Five: Posthumanism and Digital Diaspora in Simone Dede Ayivi’s PerformancesConclusionNotesBibliography

“Out of This World offers an important dialogic interanimation of Afrofuturism and contemporary Black German literary, performative, and dramatic texts. This is a lucidly argued, theoretically sophisticated, timely, and compelling book.”—Alexander Ghedi Weheliye, Brown University“This study deftly analyzes a remarkably fresh array of innovative materials. Layne expertly weaves close readings of aesthetic form together with theoretical insights into the importance of Black German culture today for refining and revising transnational concepts of Afrofuturism.”— Leslie A. Adelson, Cornell University