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Book SynopsisIn African Somaesthetics: Cultures, Feminisms, Politics, Catherine F. Botha brings together original research on the body in African cultures, specifically interrogating the possibilities of the contribution of a somaesthetic approach in the context of colonization, decolonization, and globalization in Africa. The innovative contributions that consider the somaesthetic dimensions of experience in the context of Africa (centred broadly around the themes of politics, feminisms, and cultures) reflect a diversity of perspectives and positions. The book is a first of its kind in gathering together novel and focused analyses of the body as conceived of from an African perspective.
Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors African Somaesthetics as Provocation Catherine F Botha PART 1 Untouchable Bodies 1 The Untouchable Body Gerard M. Samuel 2 The Other as Unbeautiful: Analytic Somaesthetics, Disgust and the Albinotic Body in African Traditions Elvis Imafidon PART 2 Black Bodies 3 Black Bodies, “Black Panther” Paul C. Taylor, Sarah DiMaggio, Holly Longair, and Takunda Matose 4 Re-Imagining Race through Daai za Lady & Butoh Jackï Job 5 Necro-being and the Black Body: an Interview with Leonard Harris Leonard Harris and Catherine Botha PART 3 Dancing Bodies 6 Sensing the Stage: Decolonial Readings of African Contemporary Dance Rainy Demerson 7 Self-knowledge through Dance: Considering the Female Break Dancer in South Africa Devon Bailey 8 Learning to Speak in My Mother Tongue: Ruminating on Contemporary Decolonising Dance Practices for Myself and My African Continent Lliane Loots PART 4 Changing Bodies 9 Walking and Stumbling: the Aesthetic as Agitator for Activism Sara Matchett 10 Skinstory---Migratory Experiences and the Transformational Power of Performative Means of Expression Monika Lilleike 11 Disinfect This! Scato-Aesthetic Indictments of South Africa’s Cultural, Social, and Spatial Divisions Matthias Pauwels Name Index Subject Index
