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Sindiwe Magona and the Power of Paradox
This book examines the work of Sindiwe Magona, one of South Africa’s most prolific and groundbreaking writers, widely recognized for highlighting the everyday experiences of women and the domestic side of apartheid. A pioneer among black African women writers, she is equally respected as storyteller, advocate for children’s education, activist for HIV/AIDS awareness, and champion of indigenous languages. In this book, Renée Schatteman contends that Magona’s most important contribution comes through her refusal to choose sides in the contentious debates that have polarized public discourse following apartheid. By straddling two (or more) sides of a controversy and challenging any who d...
Making a Splash
The representation of aquatic people in contemporary film and television—from their on-screen sexuality to the mockumentaries they've inspired. Mermaids have been a feature of western cinema since its inception and the number of films, television series, and videos representing them has expanded exponentially since the 1980s. Making a Splash analyses texts produced within a variety of audiovisual genres. Following an overview of mermaids in western culture that draws on a range of disciplines including media studies, psychoanalysis, and post-structuralism, individual chapters provide case studies of particular engagements with the folkloric figure. From Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" to the creation of Ursula, Ariel's tentacled antagonist in Disney's 1989 film, to aspects of mermaid vocality, physicality, agency, and sexuality in films and even representations of mermen, this work provides a definitive overview of the significance of these ancient mythical figures in 110 years of western audio-visual media.
Precarity in Culture
The present state of research in precarity demands meta-questions and hence we need to probe both philosophy and practice in light of precarity’s different manifestations. The plural perspectives by which this phenomenon can be addressed also suggest potential for further theorization alongside that of Butler and her critics. By inviting scholars and experts from different fields and disciplines, and by applying multiple frameworks, methodological approaches, and critical lenses, this volume seeks to explore the different facets of our precarious world, while providing insights into the challenges of our possible futures.
Refractive Realisms
Refractive Realisms positions the township as a lens through which to engage the South African canon, endeavouring to provide a reorientation towards a black creative archive and surfacing under-represented forms of literary and cultural expression. The book converses with the long history of realism in black South African writing to show how the refractive realisms of the contemporary township simultaneously bear witness to precarity and articulate lively diversity. It brings together narratives that take the reader through persuasive depictions of township life and its flexible identities, the failures of post-apartheid, the possibilities that emerge from the ruins of historical injustice, the practices of commodity consumption, and the limits of race and gender discourses that align with (non)belonging to township spaces. An incisive read on the literary and cultural forms of the twenty-first-century South African township, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literary studies, identity politics, cultural studies, ethnicity and race, sociology and African Studies.
Empowerment
"If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else" nennt es Toni Morrison und damit sind alle aufgerufen, sich zu fragen, was kann ich beitragen? Sind doch politisch marginalisierte Gruppen – darunter Frauen*, Geflüchtete, Personen mit bildungsferner Herkunft sowie nicht-binäre Personen – geradezu auf Empowerment angewiesen, um gleichberechtigter an Kunst und Politik teilhaben zu können. Im Band geht es um strategische Bündnisse für politische Veränderungen, ontologische Perspektiven auf Commoning, Komponieren im Netzwerk, Unlearn the Canon!, das Pink Noise Camp, Electronic trans*Musik, feministisches Empowerment, Filme zwischen dem Ich und der Welt sowie Handlungsmacht im Fluchtkontext. Mit Beiträgen von Faika El-Nagashi, Marlene Feger und Marie-Antonia Schwebe, Marko Kölbl, Ulli Mayer, Pia Palme, Luki Schmitz, Bernadette Weigel, Mine Wenzel und Bettina Zehetner.
Williams' Cincinnati Directory ...
Issues for 1860, 1866-67, 1869, 1872 include directories of Covington and Newport, Kentucky.
