![]() ![]() Placing Firedance in conversation with the Japanese black anime series Afro Samurai (2007), I focus upon themes of masculine identity, rehabilitation, and return to sites of original trauma in the contestations of black mecha. ![]() Situating this motif in what I propose as the "prosthetic communities" of Afrofuturist fiction, I engage the concept of "AfroAsia" and deploy it as a methodological tool for inscribing blackness across ethnonationalist boundaries. Through a reading of Steven Barnes's science fiction (SF) novel Firedance (1994), this article investigates the allegorical character of the black cyborg through the motif of "black mecha." Black mecha, I contend, proffers a means of investigating representations of trauma that haunts the origin of black masculine identity. ![]()
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