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Art, Anti-Blackness and the language of protest
This thesis interrogates theoretical and ideological frameworks that structure what we've come to know as protest art. With a specific focus on radical Black protest, it became important to interrogate how the language of protest within the humanities continually falls short of articulating creative...
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| author | Kilani, Lonwabo |
| author2 | Makhubu, Nomusa |
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| description | This thesis interrogates theoretical and ideological frameworks that structure what we've come to know as protest art. With a specific focus on radical Black protest, it became important to interrogate how the language of protest within the humanities continually falls short of articulating creative interventions that emanate from Black social movements. As such, scholarly frameworks that attempt at interrogating protest interventions do so using pedagogical and ideologies that attempt at including, as forms of representation, art forms that tend to do the work of recognition and acknowledging Black struggles within the current White power structure. This thesis takes on a completely different positionality. Analysing post 1994 Black protests in South Africa, I argue that violent responses to creative Black protest interventions are not the work of misrecognition nor in need of representation within the current framework. Rather, they are a realization of the radical demand for a completely different frame of reference. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/41046 Art, Anti-Blackness and the language of protest Kilani, Lonwabo Makhubu, Nomusa Fine Art This thesis interrogates theoretical and ideological frameworks that structure what we've come to know as protest art. With a specific focus on radical Black protest, it became important to interrogate how the language of protest within the humanities continually falls short of articulating creative interventions that emanate from Black social movements. As such, scholarly frameworks that attempt at interrogating protest interventions do so using pedagogical and ideologies that attempt at including, as forms of representation, art forms that tend to do the work of recognition and acknowledging Black struggles within the current White power structure. This thesis takes on a completely different positionality. Analysing post 1994 Black protests in South Africa, I argue that violent responses to creative Black protest interventions are not the work of misrecognition nor in need of representation within the current framework. Rather, they are a realization of the radical demand for a completely different frame of reference. 2025-02-28T08:06:21Z 2025-02-28T08:06:21Z 2024 2025-02-27T12:13:56Z Thesis / Dissertation Masters Masters http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41046 Eng application/pdf Michaelis School of Fine Art Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Fine Art Kilani, Lonwabo Art, Anti-Blackness and the language of protest |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Art, Anti-Blackness and the language of protest |
| title_full | Art, Anti-Blackness and the language of protest |
| title_fullStr | Art, Anti-Blackness and the language of protest |
| title_full_unstemmed | Art, Anti-Blackness and the language of protest |
| title_short | Art, Anti-Blackness and the language of protest |
| title_sort | art anti blackness and the language of protest |
| topic | Fine Art |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41046 |
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