Author： Sanger Nadia
Publisher： Routledge Ltd
ISSN： 1472-5843
Source： African Identities, Vol.11, Iss.1, 2013-02, pp. : 61-78
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Abstract
This article considers specific cultural productions by South Africa-based artists Nandipha Mntambo and Shelley Barry, and discusses how their representations subvert hegemonic identity constructions, providing an alternative language about personhood and identity. Using a feminist intersectional analysis that connects gender, race, ability, sexuality and species, the article discusses moments of cultural production that imagine non-violent possibilities for reconstructing personhood. Through textual analysis, I engage the artists' work by unpacking what constitutes desirable personhood, acceptable bodies and the human subject in a post-colonial context, arguing that these alternatives allow for possibilities of becoming and being subjects that move outside of violent identity norms.
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