Sasinda and Futhi Siselapha (Still Here) is a fearless new interdisciplinary collection of contemporary criticism in the arts and humanities by scholars working on contemporary South Africa. Authors examine the period after the legal end of apartheid across genre and with an eye toward the study of culture. Derilene (Dee) Marco studies the cinematic legacies of Coetzee's Disgrace; Sharlene Khan explores the hateful art criticism that has become the norm in response to Black and women of color artists; Natalia Molebatsi theorizes about the poetry scene and its aesthetics and ethics of healing across generations; Zethu Cakata examines the injuries caused by unenforced post 1994 language policies; Ashraf Jamal analyzes how “African” is African art and Bhavisha Panchia offers a provocative argument for the use of laughter, humor and play as anticolonial political ethical strategies; Peter Hudson scrutinizes the colonial unconscious reproducing itself through capitalist property relations in the present; and Robert Muponde and Abebe Zegeye write about the legacies of "white writing.” The book closes with creative writing on Winnie Mandela’s prison memoir curated by Natalia Molebatsi and Jeanne Scheper and Willoughby-Herard’s reflection on the present. From June Jordan to T. Obinkaram Echewa to Sibongile Khumalo to Mary Rahube, poetry, song, fiction, photography, new media, and drama offer us an ongoing and spirit-filled struggle with potential victory.

This book is an important contribution to the study of culture in the new dispensation in South Africa and beyond. With a keen attention to the meanings of race, class, and gender the authors take up questions of representation and reparation in the face of ongoing structural and institutional forms and practices of violence.

About the Editors

Derilene (Dee) Marco lectures in Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. Dee conducts research in the areas of cinema and visual culture and race and feminist narratives in popular culture. She teaches courses in cultural studies and global cinema.

Tiffany Willoughby-Herard is an Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the President-Elect of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists and is the author of Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White Vulnerability (University of California Press 2015).

 Abebe Zegeye, is a Senior Research Fellow at The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy.  He has conducted and published extensive research on African and social identities. He has taught & worked in Africa, the Middle East, North America, Europe and Australia. Zegeye is the author of the highly acclaimed book, The Impossible Return: Struggles of the Ethiopian Jews, The Beta Israel (Red Sea Press, 2018). His forthcoming book is Sites of Remembering (Africa World Press, 2021).

World Rights

Category: Sociology, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies/AFRICA

Trim size: 6 X 9"

Page count: 254 

Publicatioon date: 2020