The Influences and Representations of Biko and Black Consciousness in Poetry in Apartheid and Postapartheid South Africa/Azania

Bofelo, Mphutlane wa

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“…His assailants have never fully admitted to their crimes. 7 Mphutlane wa Bofelo (2008) discusses the implicit presence of Biko and his writings in Black Consciousness aesthetic productions from the apartheid era to the present in "The Influences and Representations of Biko and Black Consciousness in Poetry in Apartheid and Postapartheid South Africa/Azania." 8 June 16th brings annual commemorations of the Soweto Rising.…”

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Stephen Biko and the Torture Aesthetic

Eide¹

2014

Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies

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Stephen Biko's death in South Africa in 1977 under the apartheid regime has become an iconic event for the global human-rights community for whom he is an international symbol. In the aesthetic realm-in works of art in a wide variety of forms including poetry, drama, popular song, film, and visual arts-his memory has been kept alive for over three decades. This essay focuses on three popular, transnational works of art that lay claim on global audiences to participate in an idealized universal citizenship founded on an objection to torture that is both the assumption and motivation for their art.

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Stephen Biko and the Torture Aesthetic

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2014

Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies

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“…And just as texts and figures from the counter‐modern moment circulated through the black world of the 1920s and 1930s, products and figures from this moment circulated through different sites of struggle against white supremacy. Figures in South Africa’s Black Consciousness movement took inspiration from the counter‐modern figures as well as from later figures like Nikki Giovanni and The Last Poets (Bofelo 193). At the same time, popular musical performers like Bob Marley, Miriam Makeba and James Brown undertook quite public shifts towards greater black or Pan‐African consciousness.…”

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Black Aesthetics

Taylor

2010

Philosophy Compass

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This article introduces the preoccupations and themes that define the study and practice of black aesthetics. It presents a provisional sketch of a field that has long been recognized in other humanities disciplines, but that is only now gaining wide notice in academic philosophy. This sketch emphasizes the aspects of the field that invite specifically philosophic scrutiny, while touching lightly on specific artworks, critical literatures and historical developments. Among the topics that receive attention are the following: race, aesthetic politics, creolization, nationalism, modernity, white supremacy and the blues.

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The Endless Deferral of Value

Sole¹

2016

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The Influences and Representations of Biko and Black Consciousness in Poetry in Apartheid and Postapartheid South Africa/Azania

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Stephen Biko and the Torture Aesthetic

Stephen Biko and the Torture Aesthetic

Black Aesthetics

The Endless Deferral of Value

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