Jordache A Ellapen

Indenture Aesthetics

Afro-Indian Femininities and the Queer Limits of South African Blackness

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Produktbeschreibung

Jordache A. Ellapen examines the visual and performance art practices of feminist, queer, femme, and gender nonconforming Afro-Indian and South African black artists to understand the paradoxes of freedom in contemporary South Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781478028109
• ISBN-10: 1478028106
• Artikelnr.: 70273595

Autorenporträt

Jordache A. Ellapen is Associate Professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of Rochester and coeditor of we remember differently: Race, Memory, Imagination.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xix
Introduction. Afro-Normativity, Indenture Aesthetics, and South African
Blackness  1
1. Afro-Femininities: Maternal Archives as Sites of Queer-Feminist Futures 
51
2. Afro-Vulnerabilities and the Aesthetics of Slow Death: Memory, Trauma,
and Labor  89
3. Afro-Intimacies: Queer-Kinship Formations and African Rurality  123
4. Afro-Transgressions: Queer Femininities and South African Sex Publics 
161
Coda. Afro-Queer Diasporic Femininities and Emergent Imaginaries of
Freedom  195
Notes 211
References  223
Index  245