Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1776146093 ISBN 13: 9781776146093

Verlag: Wits University Press, 2021

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An anthology dedicated to contemporary Black South African feminist writing influential to today's scholars and radical thinkers
Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa is the first collection dedicated to contemporary Black South African feminist perspectives. Leading feminist theorist, Desiree Lewis, and poet and feminist scholar, Gabeba Baderoon, have curated contributions by some of the finest writers and thought leaders into an essential resource. Radical polemic sits side by side with personal essays, and critical theory coexists with rich and stirring life histories. The collection demonstrates a dazzling range of feminist voices from established scholars and authors to emerging thinkers, activists and creative practitioners.
The writers within these pages use creative expression, photography and poetry in eclectic, interdisciplinary ways to unearth and interrogate representations of blackness, sexuality, girlhood, history, divinity, and other themes. Surfacing asks: what do the African feminist traditions that exist outside the canon look and feel like? What complex cultural logics are at work outside the centers of power? How do spirituality and feminism influence each other? What are the histories and experiences of queer Africans? What imaginative forms can feminist activism take?
Surfacing is indispensable to anyone interested in feminism from Africa, which its contributors show in vivid and challenging conversation with the rest of the world. It will appeal to a diverse audience of students, activists, critical thinkers, academics and artists.

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Desiree Lewis (Editor)
Desiree Lewis is Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the University of the Western Cape. She is the author of Living on a Horizon: Bessie Head and the Politics of Imagining (2007).



Gabeba Baderoon (Editor)
Gabeba Baderoon is a literary scholar, poet and Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and African Studies at Pennsylvania State University, where she also co-directs the African Feminist Initiative. She is the author of Regarding Muslims: from Slavery to Post-apartheid (2014) and four books of poetry, most recently The History of Intimacy (2018).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1776146093
• ISBN 13: 9781776146093
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328
• Herausgeber: Lewis Desiree, Baderoon Gabeba
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