{"product_id":"wayward-feeling-audio-visual-culture-and-aesthetic-activism-in-post-rainbow-south-africa-hardback-9781487540586","title":"Wayward Feeling; Audio-Visual Culture and Aesthetic Activism in Post-Rainbow South Africa (Hardback) 9781487540586","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWayward Feeling\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAudio-Visual Culture and Aesthetic Activism in Post-Rainbow South Africa\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHelene Strauss (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487540586\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 July 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages, 9 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.2 cm, 0.54 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eInventive new methods of audio-visual mediation and aesthetic activism have been giving shape, since at least the mid-2000s, to feelings of despair, disappointment, and rage at the injustice that South Africa\u0026amp;#x2019;s colonial and apartheid histories continue to trail in their wake. \u003ci\u003eWayward Feeling\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how racism, sexism, and other forms of structural disenfranchisement have continued to assert themselves in affective terms, and how these terms have been recast in spaces both public and intimate in \"post-rainbow\" times.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHelene Strauss argues that the tension between aspiration and achievability has yielded modes of feeling that increasingly disrupt the thrall of post-apartheid nation-building and reconciliation myths, even as widespread attachment to the utopian ideals of the anti-apartheid struggle continues to shape dissenting political organizing and cultural production. Drawing on a variety of audio-visual forms – including video installations, conceptual artwork, documentary film, live art, and sonic installations – \u003ci\u003eWayward Feeling\u003c\/i\u003e examines some of the affective resources that people in contemporary South Africa have been drawing on to make difficult lives more bearable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBewildering Times\u003cbr\u003e(An)aesthetics\u003cbr\u003eWayward Feeling\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Troubling the Rainbow Promise \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpectacles of Promise and Disappointment\u003cbr\u003eQuotidian Aesthetics in Video Installations by Berni Searle and Zanele Muholi\u003cbr\u003eWayward Politics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Moody, Expectant Teens \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVisual Youth Autobiography\u003cbr\u003eMood \u003cbr\u003eExpectation and Social (Im)mobility: Sarah Chu\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003cem\u003eMade in China\u003c\/em\u003e and Evelyn Maruping\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003cem\u003eWhere is the Love\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSurviving Disappointment \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Managing Public Feeling\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Marikana Massacre \u003cbr\u003ePre-emptive Securitisation\u003cbr\u003eAccelerated Mourning\u003cbr\u003eCounter-affective Lingering in Rehad Desai\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003cem\u003eMiners Shot Down\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCreative Activism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Feeling the Fall \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFeeling Thought, Thinking Feeling\u003cbr\u003eAffective Cartographies\u003cbr\u003eTowards a Wayward Aesthetics of Commemoration \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Feminist Resonance \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResonant Rage\u003cbr\u003eFeminist Acoustics in Gabrielle \u003cem\u003eGoliath\u0026amp;#x2019;s Personal Accounts, Elegy\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThis song is for…\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003eListen\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Shutting Down \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBreathe\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595786023192,"sku":"9781487540586","price":36.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/wayward-feeling-audio-visual-culture-and-aesthetic-activism-in-post-rainbow-south-africa-hardback-9781487540586","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}