{"product_id":"african-somaesthetics-cultures-feminisms-politics-9789004442955","title":"African Somaesthetics: Cultures, Feminisms, Politics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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 \u0026amp; 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210810777943,"sku":"9789004442955","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/african-somaesthetics-cultures-feminisms-politics-9789004442955","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}