1st Edition
Contemporary African Mediations of Affect and Access
- Contemporary African mediations of affect and access
- A peculiar place for a feminist? The New South African woman, True Love magazine and Lebo(gang) Mashile
Pumla Dineo Gqola - The girls who don’t die: subversions of gender and genre in recent fiction by Lauren Beukes
Jennifer M. Schmidt - Sticky e/motional connections: young people, social media, and the re-orientation of affect
Allison Mackey - Mediating women’s globalized existence through social media in the work of Adichie and Bulawayo
Camille Isaacs - A threatening personification of freedom or: Sobukwe and repression
Derek Hook - "Only words can bury us, not silence": reading Yvonne Vera’s difficult silences
Sarah Kastner - Fostering receptivity: cultural translation, ethical solicitation, and the navigation of distance in J.T. Rogers’ The Overwhelming
Susan Spearey - Empathy’s echo: post-apartheid fellow feeling
Ross Truscott
Biography
Helene Strauss is Chair of the Department of English at the University of the Free State, South Africa. She has published widely on South African literature and culture and currently serves on the editorial boards of ARIEL, English in Africa, and Acta Academica. She was the local director of the 2015 Association for Cultural Studies Institute.
Sarah Olutola is a PhD graduate and sessional instructor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Canada. Her current research and publications concern representations of race in popular media culture, globalization and Western humanitarianism with respect to Africa.
Jessie Forsyth earned her PhD in English and Cultural Studies with a graduate diploma in Gender Studies and Feminist Research from McMaster University, Canada. Her research draws variously-situated African and Indigenous cultural texts into conversation to imagine critically transformative modes of working across epistemological, embodied, and socio-political productions of ‘difference.’
