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An Afropolitan quest: a contemporary jeweller’s inquiry into Identity and Identification in Post-Colonial Africa
Thesis (DPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2024.
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| author | Mashange, Bongani Tendai Percy |
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/131823 An Afropolitan quest: a contemporary jeweller’s inquiry into Identity and Identification in Post-Colonial Africa Mashange, Bongani Tendai Percy Van Robbroeck, Lize Terreblanche, Carine Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts. Cultural identity -- Africa Art and globalization -- Africa African diaspora -- Africa Jewelers -- 21st century -- Africa Pan-Africanism -- Africa Postcolonialism -- Africa Colonialism -- Africa Multiculturalism in Art -- Africa UCTD Thesis (DPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2024. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this project, I engage my personal experiences as a cosmopolitan African subject belonging to multiple worlds. My body of work is in celebration of my cultural identity as complex and multifarious. I utilise a visual semiotics that contests fixed notions of cultural identity, that offer a means of expressing a need for recognition, and negotiate the parameters of the intersectionality of cultural and political citizenship. I use my art jewellery as a tool to question the concept of belonging in contemporary Africa. To examine my political subjectivity, I investigate contemporary writings on national and cultural identity politics. This research project not only adds to what is known and understood about identity and identification in postcolonial Africa, but it offers individuals who have struggled with racism, xenophobia, tribalism or any form of alienation, due to complex or hybrid identities, a different way of understanding and engaging their own identity as positive, thereby offering strategies to escape essentialist perceptions of identity and culture. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie projek ondersoek ek my persoonlike ervaringe as 'n kosmopolitaanse Afrikaan wat hoort aan veelvoudige wêrelde. My werk vier my kulturele identiteit as kompleks en veelvuldig. Ek gebruik visuele semiotiek wat gevestigde idees oor kulturele identiteit uitdaag, en uitdrukking gee aan my behoefte aan kulturele erkenning, en wat die interseksionaliteit van kulturele en politieke identiteit ondersoek. Ek gebruik my kunsjuwele as 'n middel om te verken hoe en of ek behoort in eietydse Afrika. Om my eie komplekse subjektiwiteit te begryp, ondersoek ek 'n wye verskeidenheid kritiese tekste oor nasionale en kulturele identiteit. Hierdie navorsingsprojek brei nie alleen uit oor die begrip van identiteit en identifikasie in postkoloniale Afrika nie, maar bied individue wat worstel met rassisme, xenofobie, gemengde stamverbondenheid en enige vorm van vervreemding as gevolg van hibriditeit, 'n positiewe en bevrydende begrip van identiteit, en die gereedskap om essensialistiese persepsies van identiteit en kultuur te systap. Doctoral 2025-03-31T12:53:13Z 2025-03-31T12:53:13Z 2024-12 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/131823 en Stellenbosch University 250 pages : illustrations application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Cultural identity -- Africa Art and globalization -- Africa African diaspora -- Africa Jewelers -- 21st century -- Africa Pan-Africanism -- Africa Postcolonialism -- Africa Colonialism -- Africa Multiculturalism in Art -- Africa UCTD Mashange, Bongani Tendai Percy An Afropolitan quest: a contemporary jeweller’s inquiry into Identity and Identification in Post-Colonial Africa |
| title | An Afropolitan quest: a contemporary jeweller’s inquiry into Identity and Identification in Post-Colonial Africa |
| title_full | An Afropolitan quest: a contemporary jeweller’s inquiry into Identity and Identification in Post-Colonial Africa |
| title_fullStr | An Afropolitan quest: a contemporary jeweller’s inquiry into Identity and Identification in Post-Colonial Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Afropolitan quest: a contemporary jeweller’s inquiry into Identity and Identification in Post-Colonial Africa |
| title_short | An Afropolitan quest: a contemporary jeweller’s inquiry into Identity and Identification in Post-Colonial Africa |
| title_sort | afropolitan quest a contemporary jeweller s inquiry into identity and identification in post colonial africa |
| topic | Cultural identity -- Africa Art and globalization -- Africa African diaspora -- Africa Jewelers -- 21st century -- Africa Pan-Africanism -- Africa Postcolonialism -- Africa Colonialism -- Africa Multiculturalism in Art -- Africa UCTD |
| url | https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/131823 |
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