Unintended Artistic Research on Memory, Masculinity, and African Beauty: The Case of Serurubele

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dc.book.titleProceedings of the Arts Research Africa Conference 2020en_ZA
dc.citation.doihttps://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/TS85Yen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorShoro, Katleho Kano
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-08T10:50:48Z
dc.date.available2020-07-08T10:50:48Z
dc.date.issued2020-07
dc.descriptionWhat does it mean to re-evaluate ideas of beauty in Africa? Using performance as a research methodology and the idea of serurubele (“butterfly” in Sesotho and Setswana) as a heuristic device, this performance-lecture explored the value that critically engaging with people’s relationships with butterflies, butterfly-games, songs, and memories holds in the context of decolonial, African-centred scholarship. Could interrogating the idea of butterflies, as well as the tenderness that comes with black African men’s memories of butterflies, offer a more nuanced perspective of black masculinity and gender identity?en_ZA
dc.description.abstractWhat does it mean to re-evaluate ideas of beauty in Africa? Using performance as a research methodology and the idea of serurubele (“butterfly” in Sesotho and Setswana) as a heuristic device, this performance-lecture explored the value that critically engaging with people’s relationships with butterflies, butterfly-games, songs, and memories holds in the context of decolonial, African-centred scholarship. Could interrogating the idea of butterflies, as well as the tenderness that comes with black African men’s memories of butterflies, offer a more nuanced perspective of black masculinity and gender identity?en_ZA
dc.description.librarianChristo Doherty 2020en_ZA
dc.facultyHumanitiesen_ZA
dc.funderThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundationen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationWhat does it mean to re-evaluate ideas of beauty in Africa? Using performance as a research methodology and the idea of serurubele (“butterfly” in Sesotho and Setswana) as a heuristic device, this performance-lecture explored the value that critically engaging with people’s relationships with butterflies, butterfly-games, songs, and memories holds in the context of decolonial, African-centred scholarship. Could interrogating the idea of butterflies, as well as the tenderness that comes with black African men’s memories of butterflies, offer a more nuanced perspective of black masculinity and gender identity?en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/29219
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherArts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersranden_ZA
dc.rightsLicensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Copyright of texts: the authors, performers, and panellists Copyright of images: the authors, artists, performers, and panellistsen_ZA
dc.schoolThe Wits School of Artsen_ZA
dc.subjectartistic research, arts research, decolonisation, arts pedagogy,en_ZA
dc.titleUnintended Artistic Research on Memory, Masculinity, and African Beauty: The Case of Serurubeleen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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