...,” or reworking the mundane in the service of the marvelous. © 2020 by Nka Publications 2020 Journal of Contemporary African Art 47 November 202056 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-8719641 © 2020 by Nka Publications Christina Knight A Family Affair Queerness s form is utopian. José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising...

... twenty years, 19 Okwui Enwezor, “Networks of Practice: Globalization, but grasping the meaning of blackness from a queer feminist Geopolitics, Geopoetics,” in Contemporary African Art since 1980 perspective in connection to representation is a complex endeavor. (Bologna: Damiani, 2009), 25. One...

... of African Americans, see Renate Lorenz, Queer Art: A Freak Theory (Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript Verlag, 2012), 25 27. 9 There are several biblical references to the land of milk and honey but most notably in Exodus 3:8, which states: So I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians...

... and yet too himself is queer, as in same-sex loving, however, British; this queerness led to his being perceived as would be anachronistic and would in some ways black. The black dandy, along with his association 36 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 38–39 • November 2016 with Wilde...

..., Methodology of the Oppressed, 62. My emphasis. 16 Beam, In the Life. 17 Juana María Rodríguez, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings (New York: NYU Press, 2014). 100 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 38–39 • November 2016 ...

...Okwui Enwezor Copyright © 2004 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2004 THE PAULDINi HarrisG, Vintage: Families of value, 1995. Film Still AVENUE...

...Eddie Chambers eddiechambers@austin.utexas.edu Copyright © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. From the Editor L argely unattended to dimensions of African American art...

... sparked in the 1970s by the Black and Latinx Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ+) communities in New York. The muses are disenfranchised African American trans women who have faced a long-standing subjugation anchored in America’s history of racial slavery and classed transphobic...

... on, twentieth-century American, European, and black diasporic art and culture. It seeks to contextualize as well as critique a select sampling of visual representations and performative operations of this enigmatic African, who conscientiously exploited the interests and conceits of modernism and primitivism...

... the social and ideological contexts for Fani-Kayode s transgressive art. Ever attentive to social context, Bourland introduces the reader to brilliant inter- pretations of how Fani-Kayode s pho- tography blended various queer and aesthetic cultures. Through this blend- ing, the book demonstrates how Fani...

... queer perspectives have contrib- .barnard.edu/sfonline/ice/palsson_01.htm. uted to changing the discussion of art history, Arc- 9. See Homi K. Bhabha, “Of Mimicry and Man,” in The Loca- tion of Culture (New York: Routledge, 1994), p. 86...

...Soraya Murray; Derek Conrad Murray Copyright © 2008 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2008 ON ART AND CONTAMINATION Performing Authenticity in Global Art Practices Soraya Murray & Derek Conrad Murray ith the gradual shift of Western art- cal...

... disaporan aesthetic and sensibilities. Ideally, the conversation sparked by this project will continue to challenge, evolve, and inform ideas of masculinity, class, gender, and sexuality. Copyright © 2015 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2015 Black fashion dandyism sapeur Swenka...

...Monica L. Miller This essay examines musician and style icon Janelle Monáe’s signature suit of clothes—her tuxedo—and argues that the tuxedo and its accompanying styling create productive tensions between restraint and abandon, typicality and queerness, captivity and freedom. For Monáe...

... with negative emotions: sorrow, pain, and humiliation. Illustrative of the turn is the 2009 exhibition Beauty and Pleasure in South African Contemporary Art , which considered pain and suffering as overrated and sought to provide a more accurate picture of life on the continent as a mix of pleasure and pain...

... among the earliest queer interpretations of this role, the scene 190 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 49 November 2021 dislocates and juxtaposes photographic shots of the presumed Gielgud performance with the photo of a teenaged Chahine playing the same role. This is intercut with a black...

... tentatively around more Viewed within the trajectory of production. Acknowledging his cant departure from his earlier fundamental issues of queer postmodern identity art, Ligon's early interest in Abstract Expres...

.... Copyright © 2016 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2016 CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK FEMINIST ACADEMIC PORNOGRAPHER Mireille Miller-Young hen Sander Gilman first published his pathbreaking work...

...Silvi Naçi RE V IE W S Journal of Contemporary African Art 45 November 2019160 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-7917228 © 2019 by Nka Publications ALL LANGUAGES WELCOMED HERE DELL MARIE HAMILTON SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS JANUARY 10 FEBRUARY 8, 2019 The wounds of the Spirit heal...

... of Contemporary African Art 2012 Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s African Cyborgian Thought Matthew Omelsky n his essay “Welcome to Applied Fiction,” the of Senegal, whose Touki bouki (1973) and Hyènes filmmaker Jean-­Pierre Bekolo presents...