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 -