An Anthology of African Cultural Studies, Volume II (eBook, ePUB)

Directions
Redaktion: Wright, Handel Kashope; Tomaselli, Keyan G.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume focuses on the directions that African cultural studies has taken over the years and covers the following themes: contemporary issues in African cultural studies; Gender and the making of identity; the dual discourses of Afropessimism and Afrofuturism; problematizing the African diaspora, methodology and African cultural studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040133804
• Artikelnr.: 72276393

Autorenporträt

Handel Kashope Wright is Senior Advisor to the President on Anti-racism and Inclusive Excellence, Director of the Centre for Culture, Identity and Education and Professor of Education, University of British Columbia and Senior Research Associate, University of Johannesburg. He is also Associate Editor of Critical Arts. Keyan G. Tomaselli is Distinguished Professor, Dean's Office, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, and Professor Emeritus and Fellow, University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is founder and now co-editor of Critical Arts.

Inhaltsangabe

Directions: Introduction to An Anthology of African Cultural Studies,
Volume II 1. Contemporary orientations in African Cultural Studies 2.
Cultural studies and the African Global South 3. What has African Cultural
Studies done for you lately? Autobiographical and global considerations of
a floating signifier 4. (West) African feminisms and their challenges 5.
The female body in audiovisual political propaganda jingles: the Mbare
Chimurenga Choir in Zimbabwe's contested political terrain 6. Stylin': The
great masculine enunciation and the (re)fashioning of African diasporic
identities 7. Afropessimism: a genealogy of discourse 8. The roots of
Afropessimism: The British invention of the 'dark continent' 9. Rainbow
Worriers: South African Afropessimism Online 10. 'Did He Freeze?':
Afrofuturism, Africana Womanism, and Black Panther's Portrayal of the Women
of Wakanda 11. Fashioning Africanfuturism: African comics, Afrofuturism,
and Nnedi Okorafor's Shuri1 2. Random thoughts provoked by the conference
"Identities, democracy, culture and communication in Southern Africa" 13.
Marcus Garvey: the remapping of Africa and its diaspora 14. Whose Diaspora
is this anyway? Continental Africans trying on and troubling diasporic
identity 15. Marking the unmarked: Hip-hop, the gaze & the African body in
North America 16. Constructing consciousness: Diasporic remembrances and
imagining Africa in late modernity Cultural Studies as 'Psycho-babble'18.
South Africa in the global neighbourhood: Towards a method of cultural
Analysis 19. Cultural studies as praxis: (making) an autobiographical case
20. Navigating the African archive - A conversation between Tamar Garb and
Hlonipha Mokoena