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Adjacency, or, Words for Pain

Baderoon, Gabeba. 2024. Adjacency, or, Words for Pain. New England Review, 45(4), 110–113. https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2024.a948981

Gabeba Baderoon Gabeba Baderoon

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Decolonisation and affective worlds: On the worldmaking potential of shame and rage in the South African “post”-apartheid present

This long-term project, with it’s focus on affect, particularly melancholy, shame and rage, is located in a feminist decolonial framework and is aimed at disrupting gender, raced and other entangled binaries and associated violences.

Lou-Marié Kruger Lou-Marié Kruger Tamara Shefer Tamara Shefer

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Representing Discontent: South Africa in words and on screen

This project focuses on the affective shaping of identity in South African texts of the 21st century.

Wamuwi Mbao Wamuwi Mbao

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School Photos in Liquid Time

Hirsch, Marianne and Leo Spitzer. 2020. School Photos in Liquid Time. University of Washington Press. https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/978029574...

Marianne Hirsch Marianne Hirsch Leo Spitzer Leo Spitzer
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