Walsh, A orcid.org/0000-0003-1501-8804 (2020) Poethics of Queer Resurrection in Black South African Performance: I Stand Corrected and Somnyama Ngonyama. Performance Paradigm, 15. pp. 23-39. ISSN 1832-5580
Abstract
I propose critical attention on the queer undead; the resisting object; the refusing subject or the subject of refusal. The article circulates around, and examines, the figure of a zombie, working through the notion of resurrection in two artistic representations: I Stand Corrected (Mojisola Adebato and Mamela Nyamza, 2012-2014) and Zanele Muholi’s collection Somnyama Ngonyama.
The contested, often ambiguous nature of knowing can be foregrounded in and by performance in particular and distinctive ways. I seek to mobilise performance analysis towards Southern epistemologies. The value for Southern feminism is in how knowledges of bodies and experiences speak beyond the local context of South Africa to conceive of how interlocking oppressions trace links between performance, aesthetics, and theory. To do so, I tease out Brazilian feminist ethicist Denise Ferreira da Silva’s concept of a poethics of Black refusal. This is valuable for an emergence of hopefulness in what might be called a (decolonial) cultural revolution of and from the South. As such, I theorise Southern Feminisms as a project of poethics.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Aylwyn Walsh. Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-ncsa/4.0/). |
Keywords: | zombie; queer; poethics; Black optimism; South Africa |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > Performance and Cultural Industries (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 11 Dec 2019 11:28 |
Last Modified: | 27 Feb 2020 13:15 |
Published Version: | https://www.performanceparadigm.net/index.php/jour... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | University of New South Wales |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:154426 |