Cultural StudiesPub Date : 2022-10-06DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2104896
Aretha Phiri, M. Wright
{"title":"Interview: ‘The elephant in the room’: talking (physics of) blackness with Michelle M. Wright","authors":"Aretha Phiri, M. Wright","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2022.2104896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2104896","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"333 - 340"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42177423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural StudiesPub Date : 2022-10-06DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2104898
Aretha Phiri
{"title":"Reframing the Black Atlantic","authors":"Aretha Phiri","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2022.2104898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2104898","url":null,"abstract":"upon","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"191 - 203"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48304629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural StudiesPub Date : 2022-10-03DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2104902
Laura Chrisman
{"title":"Afterword: engendering new century black transnationalisms","authors":"Laura Chrisman","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2022.2104902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2104902","url":null,"abstract":"An international set of women scholars, exploring twenty- fi rst century culture by transnational, African women and gender non-binary people: what a rousing demonstration of women ’ s contemporary prominence as intellectual and creative agents of global Black experience. Initially to researchers in cultural studies, such major transnational writers as Chimamanda Adichie, Leila Aboulela, Zoë Wicomb, and Aminatta Forna may have appeared to be outliers within the literary African and postcolonial establishment. It was possible to construe their blending of diasporic and continental perspectives as the result of their own atypical personal circumstances. Hindsight allows us to see them, instead, as the crest of a wave, or – to move away from oceanic diction – early representatives of a demographic phenomenon that origi-nated with capitalist globalization. This phenomenon confounds Gilroy ’ s binaristic understanding: ‘ roots ’ and ‘ routes ’ are no longer easily distinguish-able for a population which claims multiple continental homes, cultures, and identities simultaneously.","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"341 - 349"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47427977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural StudiesPub Date : 2022-09-12DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2104897
Samantha Pinto
{"title":"Feeling against the plot: an African diaspora feminist politics of happiness","authors":"Samantha Pinto","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2022.2104897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2104897","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay maps the uneasy terrains of Black feminist happiness in the diaspora as a complex reckoning with radical political and social theories of subject formation Refusing analytics that prioritize loss, injury, lack, stasis, and trauma as the defining features of the Black diaspora, African diaspora feminist happiness displaces whiteness and the West as its referents in favour of more difficult intimacies across Black geographies that imagine fleeting alliances, inevitable inequity, and tension across diaspora communities rather than similarity or belonging. This essay traces texts, often in popular genres, that plot intimacies that acknowledge legacies of injury but seek out other roots and routes to define the present and futures of Black feminine subjects, futures often knowingly in tension with the given materiality and resources of diaspora life, and in tension with the dominant modes of critique hewing toward death and pessimism in the field of Black diaspora studies. Through the global self-help genre, the Afropolitan literary novel, African young adult fiction, and sensational Kenyan LGBTQ cinema, this article traces the generic plots of African diaspora feminist happiness to find neither neoliberal hailed subjects nor subversive resistance. If in the masculine diaspora imagination, coming together via racial and political identity equals a new sense of community, the feminist genealogies that this essay traces through diaspora happiness are uncomfortable and deeply self-conscious about their traffic in capital and middle-class resources and desire. The texts that I look to do not attempt to erase, flatten, or romanticize difference into the poles of resistance and complicity, but instead define diaspora feminist happiness through tension and temporariness. These texts use diaspora pathways as structures of feeling conducive and conductive of happiness even as they do not engage the romance of racial, political, or even ethical community to find them.","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"243 - 262"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45031334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural StudiesPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.14361/9783839460559
{"title":"Deutscher Gangsta-Rap III","authors":"","doi":"10.14361/9783839460559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839460559","url":null,"abstract":"Deutscher Gangsta-Rap hat es als Ort der symbolischen Austragung sozialer Konflikte seit der Jahrtausendwende zu einiger Bekanntheit gebracht. Hier kommen nicht nur Spannungen zwischen Hoch- und Popkultur, Migrationsgesellschaft und Nationalitäten, wirtschaftlichen Erfolgen und künstlerischem Anspruch deutlich zum Tragen, sondern auch strafrechtlich verfolgbare Beleidigungen und gesellschaftliche Diskursfähigkeit. Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes zeigen, dass dieses Phänomen der pluralen Gesellschaft exemplarisch für die Ambivalenzen der Moderne steht.","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47519962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural StudiesPub Date : 2022-08-25DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2104899
Polo B. Moji
{"title":"Oceanic bellies and liquid feminism in Fatou Diome’s Le Ventre de l’Atlantique","authors":"Polo B. Moji","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2022.2104899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2104899","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Winner of the 2003 Prix des Hémisphères Chantal Lapicque, and translated into German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and English, Fatou Diome’s 2003 novel, Le Ventre de l’Atlantique [ The Belly of the Atlantic, 2006] plays on the image of the Atlantic as an oceanic belly. This article explores the usefulness of the black Atlantic epistemology (Glissant 1990, Gilroy 1993) as a site for imagining the production of diasporic space, alongside the critique that ‘by excluding Africa, Gilroy has in effect narrowed the Africanness or Africanity of the ‘Black Atlantic’ (Masilela 1996, p. 88). Through Diome’s novel, I explore how this intersects with a feminist project of rendering visible the spatialization of difference, through an engagement with the geographies of domination. Borrowing from Zymunt Bauman’s (2006) notion of liquid modernity, I therefore propose ‘liquid feminism’ as a framework that relates the globalised oceanic mobilities of African migrants to the structures of patriarchal domination which render black women’s lives ‘ungeographic’ (McKittrick 2006). I start by exploring the geographic sensibility of Diome’s poetics, including her use of the language of geography and her personification of the Atlantic Ocean. I then analyse how her portrayal of a geulwaar matriclan subverts the notion of Western feminism as rescuing African women who are trapped by ‘tradition’. Finally, I explore Diome’s notion of ‘geographic suicide’ as associated with the reflexivity of African women as modern subjects a site for the ‘affective mapping’ (Flatley 2009) of diasporic identity. Ultimately, the article illustrates how Diome’s feminist re-imagining of the black Atlantic centres Africa and Africanness, combating the temporal dislocation that fixes the continent as a space that is lost in the originary moment of rupture of the Middle Passage.","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"298 - 315"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45308567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural StudiesPub Date : 2022-08-16DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2104901
Janine Jones
{"title":"Modern African humans effecting Atlantic middle passes","authors":"Janine Jones","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2022.2104901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2104901","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay challenges the traditional focus of the Black Atlantic on Anglophone-dominant movement and culture by prioritizing Afro-Francophone discussion, through a philosophical contextualization of Fatou Diome’s Le Ventre de L’Atlantique in conversation with Aminata Traoré’s Le Viol de L’Imaginaire. The essay offers an exploration of fugitivity or exile from colonially structured material conditions and lived experiences of unfreedom in African contexts, notions present in both narratives. After presenting and analyzing a key element of the encounter between Western human beings and African human be-ings, it considers a central element of Diome’s novel, in counterpart with a central theme of Traoré’s text. It explores the idea that the type of fugitivity that transpires in Diome’s novel, and the kind of exile of which Traoré speaks, can be understood as, in part, a result of a salient feature of the relationality between human beings and human be-ings. In that Diome’s Salie and Traoré tell their communities what they know about the West and how Africans really fare there, they break through community lies and ignorance that aid and abet – but do not, at the root, cause – the complex situation of capture and captivation that coerce or seduce Africa’s youth into varying states of fugitivity or exile. Both propose reimaging and rebuilding Africa for Africans – an endeavour requiring that African youth remain in Africa.","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"993 - 1008"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45125028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural StudiesPub Date : 2022-08-10DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2104894
J. Terry
{"title":"‘It was a departure of sorts’: glocal homes in recent short fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Efemia Chela, Chibundu Onuzo and Lesley Nneka Arimah","authors":"J. Terry","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2022.2104894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2104894","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article takes off from two of the angles of contention found in critical responses to Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic and subsequent Atlanticist studies: asymmetries and exclusions along gender lines, and insufficient attention to the dynamics of contemporary global capital. It examines what gets articulated when recent African short fiction is approached via a frame centered on the location of home, gendered labour, sexual and reproductive economies, and the interrelation of the domestic and capitalism. In particular, it is informed by Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s counter-heuristic to Gilroy, the Black Feminine Domestic. Gumbs’s attempt to make visible such a subject position and forms of labour prompts my focus on domestic workers and analogous figures, often migrant and low paid and sometimes found only at the edges of texts. I discuss Efemia Chela’s ‘Chicken’ (2014), Chibundu Onuzo’s ‘Sunita’ (2015), Lesley Nneka Arimah’s ‘Skinned’ (2019), and, from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s collection The Thing Around Your Neck (2009), the stories ‘Imitation,’ ‘The Thing Around Your Neck’ and ‘On Monday of Last Week.’ Here the tropes of circulation and regimes of rationality identified by Gilroy find counterparts in the structuring of workforces, the reach of body and biopolitics, and discourses of national borders and migration. The lens of ‘women’s work’ permits an intersectional shift in and beyond Black Atlantic frames and the heteropatriarchal imagination, but the selected material and preoccupations here also seek to offer another opening on debates about, and genres of, ‘African’ writing.","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"224 - 242"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43816914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural StudiesPub Date : 2022-08-07DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2108867
A. Meghji
{"title":"Stirring the sugar in the English cup of tea: more notes on the continuing relevance of Stuart Hall","authors":"A. Meghji","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2022.2108867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2108867","url":null,"abstract":"in the neighbourhoods that the ethnographer would not perhaps go back to? What exactly are we doing when we translate the violent and traumatic experience of the poor into an academic work in English? These are the questions Açıksöz’s brief reflections on his own experience generate and leave open for us. And this quest, though definitely requiring it, might be a little more complicated than ‘becoming terrorist’.","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"542 - 551"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44451884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural StudiesPub Date : 2022-08-07DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2108864
Xie Yashu
{"title":"The hashtag: the most conspicuous sign of our times","authors":"Xie Yashu","doi":"10.1080/09502386.2022.2108864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2108864","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47907,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"723 - 725"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47140477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}