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{"title":"New mythologies: violence and colonialism in Hollywood blockbusters","authors":"Priscilla Boshoff","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2023.2272500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2023.2272500","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Neale, Genre.2 Mabasa and Boshoff, “Liberatory violence or the gift?”Additional informationNotes on contributorsPriscilla BoshoffPriscilla Boshoff teaches Media and Cultural Studies at the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University, in South Africa. Her research focuses on contemporary popular culture in Africa and its relationship to issues of social justice.","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"2015 34","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135635492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Imagining Africa: <i>Black Panther: Wakanda Forever</i> vs. <i>The Woman King</i>","authors":"Jacqueline Tafadzwa Nyathi","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2023.2256519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2023.2256519","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Wainana, “How to Write About Africa.”2 Dery, “Black to the Future.”3 Okorafor, African Futurism Defined.4 Yahmatta-Taylor, “The Combahee River Collective Statement.”5 Halberstam, “Unworldking.”6 Mudimbe, The Invention of Africa.7 Wai, “Thinking the Colonial Library.”8 Butler, “A Few Rules For Predicting The Future.”9 Wormsley, “There Are Black People In The Future.”Additional informationNotes on contributorsJacqueline Tafadzwa NyathiJacqueline T. Nyathi is a writer. She currently contributes to The Continent, a weekly pan-African newspaper, and to The Sunday Long Read. She has previously contributed to POVO magazine and other publications.","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135351042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"African literature of ideas and the prospect of collective individualism","authors":"Darlington Chibueze Anuonye","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2023.2259159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2023.2259159","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Jackson, The African Novel of Ideas, 2.2 Ibid.3 Diala, Esiaba Irobi’s Drama and the Postcolony, 153.4 Ismaili, “100 Writers Celebrate Ama Ata Aidoo’s Life and Work,” 77.5 Achebe, Morning Yet on Creation Day, 45.6 Eheruo, “The Beloved Son,” 3.7 Church, “Collective Individualism,” 3.8 Jackson, The African Novel of Ideas, 4.9 Echeruo, “Shakespeare and the Boundaries of Kinship,” 2.10 Gurnah, Pilgrims Way, 23.11 Ibid., 24.12 Gurnah, “Writing and Place,” 59.13 Gurnah, Pilgrims Way, 25.14 The Nobel Committee, “Abdulrazak Gurnah Facts,” 5.15 Jackson, The African Novel of Ideas, 4.Additional informationNotes on contributorsDarlington Chibueze AnuonyeDarlington Chibueze Anuonye is a literary conversationist and nonfiction editor at Ngiga Review. His research interests cut across oral, postcolonial, and diaspora literatures. He was awarded the Amplify Fellowship of the MasterCard Foundation in 2021.","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"213 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135351110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On the “wrong” side of history: fabulating history in <i>the Woman King</i> (2022)","authors":"Obakeng Kgongoane","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2023.2256518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2023.2256518","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 The Woman King, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood (Sony Pictures Releasing, Citation2022).2 Rachel Ulatowski, “‘The Woman King’ Controversy, Explained,” The Mary Sue, February 13, Citation2023. https://www.themarysue.com/the-woman-king-controversy-explained/#:∼:text=Why%20is%20The%20Woman%20King%20controversial%3F&text=The%20major%20reason%20for%20the,film%20about%20Black%20women's%20empowerment. 1. Viola Davis, who plays General Nanisca in the film as well as being one of the film’s producers, has openly admitted that many parts of the film were deliberately fictionalised for the “sake of entertainment and art”.3 Tafi Mhaka, “The Woman King: The truth about slavery matters,” Aljazeera, October 7, Citation2022. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/10/7/the-woman-king-the-truth-about-slavery-matters.4 Ibid.5 Ibid.6 Ibid.7 Nyong’o, Afro-fabulations.8 Ibid., 166.9 Saidiya Hartman, “Venus in Two Acts,” 11.10 Ibid., 8.11 Ibid., 11.12 Ibid., 1–14; Rosner, Critical fabulations; Nyong’o, Afro-fabulations.13 Rosner, Critical fabulations.14 Ibid.15 The Woman King, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood (Sony Pictures Releasing, 2022).16 Campt, Listening to Images, 17.17 Keeling, The Witch’s Flight, 2.18 The Woman King, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood (Sony Pictures Releasing, 2022).19 Ibid.20 Ibid.21 Keeling, The Witch’s Flight, 15.22 The Woman King, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood (Sony Pictures Releasing, 2022).23 Ibid.24 Ibid.25 Hartman, “Venus in Two Acts,” 14.Additional informationNotes on contributorsObakeng KgongoaneObakeng Kgongoane is a lecturer in Visual Studies at the University of Pretoria.","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"299 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135351114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Staying with the crisis: a review of Eve Fairbanks’s <i>The Inheritors</i>","authors":"Wamuwi Mbao","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2023.2254204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2023.2254204","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 For a brief summary of the Reitz Four incident, see Sisonke Msimang’s discussion in her review of Fairbanks’s book: https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/11/27/south-africa-trc-reitz-ufs-jansen-race-justice-reconciliation/. For a trenchant discussion of Rhodes Must Fall, see Achille Mbembe’s “Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive” and Francis B Nyamnjoh’s #RhodesMustFall: Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa (2016).2 See Ntongela Masilela’s “The ‘Black Atlantic’ and African Modernity in South Africa”, 92.3 The Inheritors, xi.4 Ibid., xiii.5 Ibid., xiii.6 Ibid., 35.7 Ibid., 104–5.8 See David Reiersgord’s criticism in his review of The Inheritors.Additional informationNotes on contributorsWamuwi MbaoWamuwi Mbao is a literary critic and essayist. His reviews, essays and fiction appear in the Johannesburg Review of Books, Africa Is A Country, and other venues. He received a South African Literary Award in 2019 for his critical oeuvre. He teaches in the Department of English at Stellenbosch University. He is the editor of Years of Fire and Ash: Poetry of Decolonization, an anthology of South African struggle poetry published in 2021.","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135483418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The (woman) kingdoms of Dahomey and Wakanda: a roundtable on <i>the Woman King</i> and <i>Black Panther: Wakanda Forever</i>","authors":"Diana Adesola Mafe","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2023.2256530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2023.2256530","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 See Safundi volume 20 issue 1 (2019) for a roundtable discussion of the first Black Panther film and its global impact.2 The phrase “With great power comes great responsibility,” a familiar adage in the twenty-first-century zeitgeist, first appeared in Marvel Comics’ Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962) and is generally associated with the character Spider-Man.Additional informationNotes on contributorsDiana Adesola MafeDiana Adesola Mafe is professor of English at Denison University, where she teaches courses in postcolonial, gender, and Black studies. Her work tracks the literary and cinematic roles of and for women of color in African and diasporic discourses. Her current research focuses on representations of race and gender in speculative fiction with a special emphasis on the gothic. She has published two books, Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before: Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV (University of Texas Press, 2018) and Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature: Coloring Outside the (Black and White) Lines (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). She has also published articles in MELUS, African American Review, Camera Obscura, The Journal of Popular Culture, Research in African Literatures, American Drama, English Academy Review, Frontiers, Safundi, and African Women Writing Resistance.","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"304 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135828500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The African novel and the question of communalism in African philosophy","authors":"Zeyad El Nabolsy","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2023.2246266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2023.2246266","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.AcknowledgmentI wish to thank Migdalia Arcila Valenzuela and Christopher J. Lee for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of this article.Notes1 Jackson uses the term “philosophical thinking” explicitly in her book, see Jackson, The African Novel of Ideas, 185. She also uses the term “philosophical practice”, see Jackson, The African Novel of Ideas, 20. Jackson appears to be using these two terms as synonyms, and I will be following her in this practice.2 Jackson, The African Novel of Ideas, 22.3 Ibid., 116.4 Ibid, 125.5 Ibid, 134.6 Ibid, 121.7 Polycarp Ikuenobe, “Tradition and the Foundation for African Renaissance.”8 In the sense that these debates are centered around how we ought to live, they thus invoke a standard of goodness or rightness.9 Thaddeus Metz, “Toward an African Moral Theory.”10 Táíwò, “Against African Communalism.”11 Jackson, The African Novel of Ideas, 50.12 Cassirer, Rousseau, Kant and Goethe, 9.13 Jackson, The African Novel of Ideas, 71–3.14 Ibid, 156.15 Polycarp Ikuenobe, “The Idea of Personhood in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.”16 Horton, Letters on the Political Condition of the Gold Coast, 167.17 Mazrui, “Africa, My Conscience, and I.” Also Táíwò, “Obafemi Awolowo: Knowledge, Leadership, Governance,” 64.18 See, for example, Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Coloniality of Power in Postcolonial Africa, 46; Imafidon, “Alterity, African Modernity, and the Critique of Change,” 14.19 Jackson, The African Novel of Ideas, 80.20 Táíwò, Against Decolonisation, 164–5.21 A similar point was also made by Wiredu, “Toward Decolonizing African Philosophy and Religion,” 295–6.22 See, for example, the misplaced critique of Samir Amin in Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Coloniality of Power in Postcolonial Africa, 11. This critique ultimately stems from an overly broad conception of decolonization. Ndlovu-Gatsheni’s conception of decolonization draws upon the notion of decoloniality as articulated by Walter Mignolo.23 Kant, “An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?,” 17.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by a doctoral fellowship provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.Notes on contributorsZeyad El NabolsyZeyad El Nabolsy is an assistant professor of philosophy at York University. His work focuses on the history of African philosophy broadly conceived. His work has previously appeared in The Journal of African Cultural Studies, Kant Studies Online, Journal of Historical Sociology, and Science & Society.","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135830241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wakanda’s ‘digital colonialism’: looking to Africa to re-form Hollywood’s gaze","authors":"Jeanne-Marie Viljoen","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2023.2256514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2023.2256514","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractWith the box office success of the recent Black Panther films it may seem that Hollywood’s approach to such films is slowly accommodating a domestic audience’s demand for diversity. Yet, there is a danger in assuming that these films are still largely made for white audiences, since these audiences and their representatives in Hollywood boardrooms may become convinced that films like this are proof of Hollywood having engaged with Africa and done enough about diversity. This paper argues that to ensure the continued success of diverse artists in Hollywood and elsewhere the focus should extend beyond a study of the domestic market and look toward the formal ‘alien esthetic’ engagements and structure of the colonial gazing at spectacle that Hollywood demands all its audiences invest in. This paper presents Africa’s established experience of super diversity and its recognized authority in the arts – particularly the way its formal esthetics of spectacle and fantasy exceed the visual and are entwined with the lived-conditions of its audiences – as central to approaching a deeper understanding of diversity in cinema. Drawing upon this “progressive African aesthetic” to expand Hollywood’s formal engagement with fantasy and visual spectacle, opens an opportunity to decolonize Hollywood’s gaze and understand diversity in cinema more deeply.Keywords: Affective spectacleNollywoodHollywood gazeBlack PantherWakanda Foreverplanetary entanglementgeo-estheticepic fantasy filmsdigital colonialism Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Coogler, Black Panther Film Citation2018.2 Coogler, Black Panther Citation2022.3 Anderson, ComicBook Citation2022.4 Ramón et al., Hollywood Diversity Report Citation2023.5 Coetzee, Safundi Citation2019.6 Hunt et al., Hollywood Diversity Report Citation2019, 63.7 Reed, Souls Citation2014, 364.8 Vazquez, The Washington Post Citation2022, n.p.9 Arthur, The Journal of Pan African Studies Citation2014.10 Mbembe, The Massachusetts Review Citation2016, 95.11 Mbembe (Citation2021) keeps this term deliberately ambiguous so that it may operate on several levels of logic simultaneously. It refers to a powerful practice that flows from abstraction to action – beyond the mere instrumentalism and social empiricism of the West – where, specifically by keeping the paradoxical nature of Africa as sign in play, of being both crisis-prone and a leader in addressing concerns that affect all of creation, Africa is re-imagined as a global laboratory for “gauging the limits of our epistemological imagination to pose new questions about how we know what we know and what that knowledge is grounded in” (Mbembe, Out of the Dark Night, 12). He claims that this way of thinking provides an alternative to the melancholic and colonial theorising of the humanities and social sciences in the United States according to which Africa has often been erroneously characterised as ahistorical, blank and a univers","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135835271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Breaking molds, making history: <i>The Woman King</i> and <i>Black Panther: Wakanda Forever</i>","authors":"Diana Adesola Mafe","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2023.2256529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2023.2256529","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Prince-Bythewood, “With ‘The Woman King,’” A.frame, September 14, 2022.2 Coleman, “There’s a True Story Behind Black Panther’s Strong Women,” Time, February 22, 2018.3 Hall, “Cultural Identity and Cinematic Representation,” 68–82; Diawara, “Black Spectatorship,” 66–79; hooks, Black Looks.4 hooks, Black Looks, 116.5 Prince-Bythewood, “Gina Prince-Bythewood on the Oscars Shutout of ‘The Woman King,’” Hollywood Reporter, February 7, 2023.Additional informationNotes on contributorsDiana Adesola MafeDiana Adesola Mafe is professor of English at Denison University, where she teaches courses in postcolonial, gender, and Black studies. Her work tracks the literary and cinematic roles of and for women of color in African and diasporic discourses. Her current research focuses on representations of race and gender in speculative fiction with a special emphasis on the gothic. She has published two books, Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before: Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV (University of Texas Press, 2018) and Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature: Coloring Outside the (Black and White) Lines (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). She has also published articles in MELUS, African American Review, Camera Obscura, The Journal of Popular Culture, Research in African Literatures, American Drama, English Academy Review, Frontiers, Safundi, and African Women Writing Resistance.","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"304 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135830384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Remembering the Durban Moment after fifty years: a conversation with Peter Cole","authors":"Peter Cole, Christopher J. Lee","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2023.2243088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2023.2243088","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135878773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}