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creators_name: Penfold, Thomas
title: Reading emotion, reading joy: South Africa’s literary non-scenes
ispublished: inpress
divisions: UCL
divisions: B03
divisions: C03
divisions: F28
keywords: Literary non-scenes; reading for emotion; Black joy; performance; post-rainbow
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abstract: #Fallism has taken South African literature to a precipice. A growing mistrust in the country’s postcolonial politics and the continuing physical and economic oppression of black bodies – captured in the spirit of #RhodesMustFall – has led to a questioning of the rational desire to ‘put into words’. The radical social and political change required, critics imply, can no longer be adequately understood through the certainty of the written form: The path to a true decolonial future is in live art. This paper uses these suggestions as a springboard but refuses to accept the ‘death of the text’ that is implied. Rather I utilise interventions from the 1980s to once again encourage the academy to recognise the power of ‘literary non-scenes’ where the performed and the written interact. Moreover, I argue that scholars should begin to read for emotion and, in so doing, open the space for the expression of Black joy.
date: 2023-09-24
date_type: published
publisher: Taylor & Francis
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2023.2261637
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2090928
doi: 10.1080/14725843.2023.2261637
lyricists_name: Penfold, Thomas
lyricists_id: TPENF09
actors_name: Penfold, Thomas
actors_id: TPENF09
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: African Identities
issn: 1472-5843
citation:        Penfold, Thomas;      (2023)    Reading emotion, reading joy: South Africa’s literary non-scenes.                   African Identities        10.1080/14725843.2023.2261637 <https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2023.2261637>.    (In press).    Green open access   
 
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