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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Indenture Aesthetics: Afro-Indian Femininities and the
  Queer Limits of South African Blackness
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the WGSI for the launch of Jordache Ellapen’
 s book\, Indenture Aesthetics: Afro-Indian Femininities and the Queer Lim
 its of South African Blackness\n\nFriday\, March 28\, 2025 | 4:00pm – 6:
 00pm | William Doo Auditorium\, 45 Willcocks Street\n\nRSVP Here\n\nIn Ind
 enture Aesthetics\, Jordache A. Ellapen examines the visual and performanc
 e art practices of feminist\, queer\, femme\, and gender-nonconforming Afr
 o-Indian and South African black artists to understand the paradoxes of fr
 eedom in contemporary South Africa. Tracing the afterlife of apartheid-era
  racial categories and revisiting Bantu Stephen Biko’s Black Consciousne
 ss\, Ellapen theorizes South African blackness through the Indian Ocean Wo
 rld\, showing how the development of an Afro-Indian identity after generat
 ions of indentured labor and segregation troubles persistent racial hierar
 chies. Staging unexpected encounters between artists such as Sharlene Khan
 \, Mohau Modisakeng\, Lebohang Kganye\, and Reshma Chhiba\, he analyzes ho
 w their works challenge these racial categories to create new imaginaries 
 of freedom. Situated in a context in which the authentic (hetero)normative
  black subject of the post-apartheid state is bracketed from other formula
 tions of blackness\, these artists’ aesthetic practices\, alongside thos
 e of other artists like Ellapen himself\, disrupt desires for national bel
 onging and catalyze alternative and transgressive politics and subjects. B
 y rethinking the relationship between blackness\, Afro-Indianness\, and Af
 ricanness\, Ellapen highlights the role of the aesthetic in crafting a blu
 eprint for coalitional building across difference in contemporary South Af
 rica.\n\nJordache A. Ellapen is Associate Professor in the Department of 
 Black Studies at the University of Rochester and coeditor of we remember d
 ifferently: Race\, Memory\, Imagination.\n\n\n* This event is co-sponsored
  by the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies\n\n
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