An Anthology of African Cultural Studies, Volume II

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.

Autorentext

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.

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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 Shuri**1 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