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.
This volume focuses on the directions that African cultural studies has taken over the years and covers the following central themes: contemporary issues in African cultural studies; Gender and the making of identity; the dual discourses of Afropessimism and Afrofuturism; problematizing the African diaspora and methodology and African cultural studies.
The second of two volumes, the book predominantly pulls together a rich reservoir of previously published articles from Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies. Taken together the two volumes re-expose for international readers sets of theories, methodologies and studies that not only have been influenced by global trends, but which themselves have contributed to shaping those trends. While the first volume addressed foundational themes and issues in African cultural studies, this second volume focuses on the directions that African cultural studies is taking; the complex ways in which gender can be seen at work in the making of identity; the juxtaposition of two relatively new themes in African cultural studies, namely Afropessimism and Afrofuturism; the ways in which the presence of continental Africans in the diaspora problematize taken-for-granted conceptions of diaspora and diasporic identity; identifying some of the methodological issues and approaches that have been taken up in African cultural studies work.
This book will be a key resource for academics, researchers and advanced students of African cultural studies, media and cultural studies, African studies, history, politics, sociology, and social and cultural anthropology, while also being of interest to those seeking an introduction to the sub-field of African cultural studies.
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 Zimbabwes 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 Panthers Portrayal of the Women of Wakanda
11. Fashioning
Africanfuturism: African comics, Afrofuturism, and Nnedi Okorafors 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
17. Cultural Studies as Psycho-babble18. 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
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, Deans 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.
