Performing Post-Apartheid Feeling: A review of 'Wayward Feeling: Audio-Visual Culture and Aesthetic Activism in Post-Rainbow South Africa'

TY - JOUR

T1 - Performing Post-Apartheid Feeling

T2 - A review of 'Wayward Feeling: Audio-Visual Culture and Aesthetic Activism in Post-Rainbow South Africa'

AU - Thomas, Kylie

PY - 2024

Y1 - 2024

N2 - A book review of 'Wayward Feeling: Audio-Visual Culture and Aesthetic Activism in Post-Rainbow South Africa' (2022), in which cultural theorist and literary scholar Helene Strauss focuses on how “political emotions that surge unpredictably across the social”, result not only in melancholic paralysis, but animate resistance and multiple forms of aesthetic activism. Through tracing what she terms “wayward feelings”—complex, unwieldy, affective responses to the post-apartheid present—and how they are made manifest and mediated through the work of artists, activists, writers, and filmmakers, Strauss provides a seismographic reading of the present.

AB - A book review of 'Wayward Feeling: Audio-Visual Culture and Aesthetic Activism in Post-Rainbow South Africa' (2022), in which cultural theorist and literary scholar Helene Strauss focuses on how “political emotions that surge unpredictably across the social”, result not only in melancholic paralysis, but animate resistance and multiple forms of aesthetic activism. Through tracing what she terms “wayward feelings”—complex, unwieldy, affective responses to the post-apartheid present—and how they are made manifest and mediated through the work of artists, activists, writers, and filmmakers, Strauss provides a seismographic reading of the present.

KW - South Africa

KW - Visual Studies

KW - Art

KW - Cultural Studies

KW - Violence

KW - gender

U2 - 10.1080/02560046.2024.2364664

DO - 10.1080/02560046.2024.2364664

M3 - Book/Film/Article review

SN - 1992-6049

VL - 38

JO - Critical Arts

JF - Critical Arts

M1 - https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2024.2364664

ER -