... Zulu warrior voice body Msinga KwaZulu-Natal photography ...

... Hannah Arendt world alienation natality plurality political action storytelling world’s “literary” structure ...

... The introduction presents the figure of the Zulu warrior as a key component of the history of Zulu representation, and so also key to ngoma’s structures of feeling and its commodification. It tracks some regional history of ngoma and situates the umzansi Zulu style in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal...

... of Arendt’s own account of the world as the objective world of fabricated things and the intersubjective world of speech and acts. This chapter argues that Arendt’s concept of natality is a dogmatic anthropologistic reduction of the force of worlding, as evidenced by the utopianism of her solutions to modern...

... account of the world as the objective world of fabricated things and the intersubjective world of speech and acts. This chapter argues that Arendt’s concept of natality is a dogmatic anthropologistic reduction of the force of worlding, as evidenced by the utopianism of her solutions to modern world...

... in chapter 6, “The Theologico-Political Moment, 1970s.” Popularly called the Durban Moment, this confluence of labor, student, Black Consciousness, and Natal Indian Congress activism worked differently through Merebank and Wentworth, including through a strike across mainline churches. The chapter calls...

... This chapter focuses on impotent men’s social relationships in two specific contexts: with natal families and with women. The phenomenon of “imagined impotence,” in which men who had little sexual experience with women considered themselves impotent, is examined, suggesting that the intervention...

... that unfolded mainly in KwaZulu-Natal and a series of floods in the same area in 2022, which together revealed the precariousness of black and blackened life in rural and small-town South Africa. The preface offers a glimpse into South African society that rubs against the linear, progressive (neoliberal...

..., “The Theologico-Political Moment, 1970s.” Popularly called the Durban Moment, this confluence of labor, student, Black Consciousness, and Natal Indian Congress activism worked differently through Merebank and Wentworth, including through a strike across mainline churches. The chapter calls this the theologico...

... “The Insurrectionist Moment: Armed Struggle, 1960s–1980s” turns to the imagined armed struggle through young men from Merebank drawn into the Natal Indian Congress, into exile, and into the African National Congress (ANC)'s armed wing, uMkhonto weSizwe, and its imagination of revolution...