What do African feminist traditions that exist outside the canon look and feel like? What complex cultural logics are at work outside the centres of power? How do spirituality and feminism influence each other? What are the histories and experiences of queer Africans? What imaginative forms can feminist activism take?
Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa is the first collection of essays dedicated to contemporary Black South African feminist perspectives. Leading feminist theorist, Desiree Lewis, and poet and feminist scholar, Gabeba Baderoon, have curated contributions by some of the finest writers and thought leaders. Radical polemic sits side by side with personal essays, and critical theory coexists with rich and stirring life histories. By including writings by Patricia Mc Fadden, Panashe Chigumadzi, Sisonke Msimang, Zukiswa Wanner, Yewande Omotoso, Zoë Wicomb and Pumla Dineo Gqola alongside emerging thinkers, activists and creative practitioners, the collection demonstrates a dazzling range of feminist voices.
The writers in these pages use creative expression, photography and poetry in eclectic, interdisciplinary ways to unearth and interrogate representations of Blackness, sexuality, girlhood, history, divinity, and other themes. Surfacing is indispensable to anyone interested in feminism from Africa which, the contributors show, is in vivid and challenging conversations with the rest of the world.
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction: Being Black and Feminist – Desiree Lewis and Gabeba Baderoon
Chapter 1 Winnie Mandela and the Archive: Reflections on Feminist Biography – Sisonke Msimang
Chapter 2 Representing Sara Baartman in the New Millennium – Zoë Wicomb and Desiree Lewis
Part I Unmaking
Chapter 3 a playful but also very serious love letter to gabrielle goliath – Pumla Dineo Gqola
Chapter 4 Teaching Black, Teaching Gender, Teaching Feminism – Mary Hames
Chapter 5 Querying the Queer – gertrude fester-wicomb
Chapter 6 South African Feminists in Search of the Sacred – Fatima Seedat
Chapter 7 ‘Who Do You Think You Are to Speak to Me Like That?’ – jackï job
Chapter 8 Refining Islamic Feminisms: Gender, Subjectivity and the Divine Feminine – Sa’diyya Shaikh
Chapter 9 Black Lesbian Feminist Thoughts of a Born Queer – Zethu Matebeni
Chapter 10 Conversations about Photography with Keorapetse Mosimane, Thania Petersen and Tshepiso Mazibuko – Ingrid Masondo
Part II Positioning
Chapter 11 What We Make to Unmake: The Imagination in Feminist Struggles – Yewande Omotoso
Chapter 12 Breathing Under Water – Danai S. Mupotsa
Chapter 13 ‘Do I Make You Uncomfortable?’ Writing, Editing and Publishing Black in a White Industry – Zukiswa Wanner
Chapter 14 Echoes of Miriam Tlali – Barbara Boswell
Chapter 15 My Two Husbands – Grace A. Musila
Chapter 16 Hearing the Silence – Panashe Chigumadzi
Part III Remaking
Chapter 17 Thinking through Transnational Feminist Solidarities – Leigh-Ann Naidoo
Chapter 18 The Music of My Orgasm – Makhosazana Xaba
Chapter 19 Bringing Water to Krotoa’s Gardens: Decolonisation as Direct Action – Yvette Abrahams
Chapter 20 Living a Radical African Feminist Life: A Journey to Sufficiency Through Contemporarity – Patricia Mc Fadden
Notes
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Permission credits
Index
Over de auteur
Makhosazana Xaba is a research associate at Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER). She is an anthologist, short story writer and poet who has published three collections of poetry, These Hands, Tongues of Their Mothers, The Alkalinity of Bottled Water, and Running and Other Stories.
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