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Book SynopsisWayward Feeling asks what contemporary audio-visual culture and aesthetic activisms might tell us about the affective afterlives of historical injustice in post-rainbow South Africa.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Bewildering Times (An)aesthetics Wayward Feeling 1. Troubling the Rainbow Promise Spectacles of Promise and Disappointment Quotidian Aesthetics in Video Installations by Berni Searle and Zanele Muholi Wayward Politics 2. Moody, Expectant Teens Visual Youth Autobiography Mood Expectation and Social (Im)mobility: Sarah Chu’s Made in China and Evelyn Maruping’s Where is the Love Surviving Disappointment 3. Managing Public Feeling The Marikana Massacre Pre-emptive Securitisation Accelerated Mourning Counter-affective Lingering in Rehad Desai’s Miners Shot Down Creative Activism 4. Feeling the Fall Feeling Thought, Thinking Feeling Affective Cartographies Towards a Wayward Aesthetics of Commemoration 5. Feminist Resonance Resonant Rage Feminist Acoustics in Gabrielle Goliath’s Personal Accounts, Elegy, and This song is for… Listen Conclusion: Shutting Down Breathe
