Contemporary African Mediations of Affect and Access (Hardcover, 1st Edition)

Across Africa, new collectivities are shifting the terms within which access to economic opportunity, social belonging, and political agency have historically been understood. Recent years have seen powerful waves of civic mobilization sweep across the continent. Less prominent articulations of contemporary political desire have also been percolating through the diffuse experiences of the African everyday. As differential access to global capitalism and its promises folds into modes of subjection—and escape—that are hard to predict, those who exercise power find ever more ways of guarding the borders and memberships of privileged groups. This book turns to the critically entangled terms of affect and access as a basis for exploring emergent orientations in the field of African cultural theorizing. It pays especial attention to scholarship engaging with the multifaceted coordinates of political and social participation, where complex assemblages of affective attachment, exchange, and realignment work in concert with demands for socio-political and economic forms of access. This book was originally published as a special issue of Safundi.

Table of Contents

Contemporary African mediations of affect and access

Jessie Forsyth, Sarah Olutola & Helene Strauss

A peculiar place for a feminist? The New South African woman, True Lovemagazine and Lebo(gang) Mashile

Pumla Dineo Gqola

The girls who don’t die: subversions of gender and genre in recent fiction by Lauren Beukes

Jennifer M. Schmidt

Sticky e/motional connections: young people, social media, and the re-orientation of affect

Allison Mackey

Mediating women’s globalized existence through social media in the work of Adichie and Bulawayo

Camille Isaacs

A threatening personification of freedom or: Sobukwe and repression

Derek Hook

"Only words can bury us, not silence": reading Yvonne Vera’s difficult silences

Sarah Kastner

Fostering receptivity: cultural translation, ethical solicitation, and the navigation of distance in J.T. Rogers’ The Overwhelming

Susan Spearey

Empathy’s echo: post-apartheid fellow feeling

Ross Truscott

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General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Jessie Forsyth • Helene Strauss
Editors:	Helene Strauss
Authors:	Sarah Olutola
Editors:	Sarah Olutola • Jessie Forsyth
Dimensions:	246 x 174mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	178
Edition:	1st Edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-63639-2
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Local government > General Books > History > African history > General Promotions
LSN:	1-138-63639-8
Barcode:	9781138636392

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