Wayward Feeling

Audio-Visual Culture and Aesthetic Activism in Post-Rainbow South Africa

Helene Strauss (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2022
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4058-6 (ISBN)

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Wayward Feeling asks what contemporary audio-visual culture and aesthetic activisms might tell us about the affective afterlives of historical injustice in post-rainbow South Africa.

Inventive new methods of audio-visual mediation and aesthetic activism have been giving shape, since at least the mid-2000s, to feelings of despair, disappointment, and rage at the injustice that South Africa’s colonial and apartheid histories continue to trail in their wake. Wayward Feeling reveals how racism, sexism, and other forms of structural disenfranchisement have continued to assert themselves in affective terms, and how these terms have been recast in spaces both public and intimate in "post-rainbow" times.

Helene Strauss argues that the tension between aspiration and achievability has yielded modes of feeling that increasingly disrupt the thrall of post-apartheid nation-building and reconciliation myths, even as widespread attachment to the utopian ideals of the anti-apartheid struggle continues to shape dissenting political organizing and cultural production. Drawing on a variety of audio-visual forms – including video installations, conceptual artwork, documentary film, live art, and sonic installations – Wayward Feeling examines some of the affective resources that people in contemporary South Africa have been drawing on to make difficult lives more bearable.

Helene Strauss is a professor in the Department of English at the University of the Free State.

Introduction

Bewildering Times
(An)aesthetics
Wayward Feeling

1. Troubling the Rainbow Promise

Spectacles of Promise and Disappointment
Quotidian Aesthetics in Video Installations by Berni Searle and Zanele Muholi
Wayward Politics

2. Moody, Expectant Teens

Visual Youth Autobiography
Mood
Expectation and Social (Im)mobility: Sarah Chu’s Made in China and Evelyn Maruping’s Where is the Love
Surviving Disappointment

3. Managing Public Feeling

The Marikana Massacre
Pre-emptive Securitisation
Accelerated Mourning
Counter-affective Lingering in Rehad Desai’s Miners Shot Down
Creative Activism

4. Feeling the Fall

Feeling Thought, Thinking Feeling
Affective Cartographies
Towards a Wayward Aesthetics of Commemoration

5. Feminist Resonance

Resonant Rage
Feminist Acoustics in Gabrielle Goliath’s Personal Accounts, Elegy, and This song is for…
Listen

Conclusion: Shutting Down

Breathe

Erscheinungsdatum	25.08.2021
Reihe/Serie	African & Diasporic Cultural Studies
Zusatzinfo	9 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 235 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4875-4058-2 / 1487540582
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-4058-6 / 9781487540586
Zustand	Neuware