Introduction. Invisible Chains: African Writing and the Structural Double Bind; 1. African Aesthetic Imaginations and A World of Spirit; 2. ‘The World Is Up for Grabs’: Positionality and the Pursuit of Universality; 3. ‘World-expanding abstraction.’ The Sonic, Asynchronous Order of Globality; 4. Worlds of Discontent: Refusing and Accepting The Good Life Genres; 5. Fragments of A Cosmopolitan World: Undoing Aesthetic Universality; Outro. African Aesthetics in a Doubled World
Biography
Mohammad Shabangu is an assistant professor of English at Colby College and a Research Associate at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies (JIAS). A music curator and DJ, his teaching and research sits at the juncture of world literature, postcolonial studies, global south literatures and cultures of the 20th/21st century, black studies and Africana philosophy as well as sound studies. His first book, African Writing and the Double Bind of Globality, proposes a theory of African literature under the structural conditions of globality. His next book project African Time and the Attention Economy, extends the first book’s engagement with the temporality of neoliberal globalization by examining African aesthetic responses to the colonial appropriation of narrative time in the age of the digital.
