Project

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

Project

Inhospitable Places: Feminist Thinking on Whiteness, Men, and Various Kinds of Women in South African contexts

Inhospitable Places is a feminist project that works with thinking about race, gender and class in contemporary South African contexts.

Nadia Sanger Nadia Sanger

Publication

Women awake

LeBaron, Michelle. 2021. Women awake. In Gender, Transitional Justice and Memorial Arts (pp. 172–192). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/97...

Michelle LeBaron Michelle LeBaron

Publication

Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women’s Literature: Feminist Empathy

Eze, Chielozona. 2016. Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women’s Literature: Feminist Empathy. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. http://...

Chielozona Eze Chielozona Eze

Project

Interrogating Blackness, Locating ‘Africanness’: Call-and-Response in the (literary) works of Toni Morrison and Zoë Wicomb, NoViolet Bulawayo, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Taiye Selasi

This project offers a fresh, comparative, transatlantic and transnational analysis of leading African-American author, Toni Morrison’s, work on blackness through the diasporic lens of contemporary female writers of the African diaspora, Zoë Wicomb, NoViolet Bulawayo, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Taiye Selasi.

Aretha Phiri Aretha Phiri