Disobedient Forms
STIAS, Stellenbosch, 9 & 10 April 2022
Saturday, 9 April 2022
9:00 – 9:30
Arrival, coffee, opening remarks
9:00 – 11:00
African Pluriverses
Deborah Nyangulu (Muenster):
Danson Kahyana (Makerere):
Brendon Nicholls (Leeds):
Towards a Pluriversal African Literary System
Stella Nyanzi’s No Roses from My Mouth (2020) and Don’t Come in my Mouth (2021) as ‘Disobedient Texts’
Binyavanga Wainaina and the (Queer) Republic of Letters
11:00 – 11:15
Break
11:15 – 13:00
Kinetic Texts
Megan Jones (Stellenbosch):
Pearl Munemo (Rhodes):
Kudzai Barure (Rhodes):
Maria Zirra (Stockholm & Rhodes):
The Unruly Realism of ‘The Honey’
Self-publishing and Translated Texts: A Comparison between WattPad and FunDza
From Transgressive Experimentation to Literary Products of Resilience: Reframing the Position of Ztoriebhuku in Zimbabwe
Reading South African Little Magazines for the Pictures: Encounters with the Visual as World-Making in IZWI, The Classic and MEDU
13:00 – 13:45
Lunch
13:45 – 15:15
Romantic Pursuits
Tina Steiner (Stellenbosch):
Lynda Gichanda Spencer (Rhodes):
Rose J. Lim (Stellenbosch):
‘It’s Only a Love Story’: Reading Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s Dragonfly Sea as Romance
Reading Nollybooks as a Disobedient Form of the Romance Genre
Paulina Chiziane: Writing Multivalent Women in Afro-Luso Mozambique
15: 15 – 15:30
Break
15:30 – 16:30
What is Disobedience? Book launch and reading: Ingrid Nayame, author of Cupid’s Arrow (2020), in conversation with Ranka Primorac
Sunday, 10 April 2022
9:00 – 9:30
Arrival, coffee
9:00 – 11:00
Texts that Metamorphose
Nikitta Dede Adjirakor (Bayreuth):
Dina Ligaga (Wits):
Patrick Lumasia (Rhodes):
Texts that Metamorphose: The Variety of Spoken Word Poetry in Tanzania
Parody and the Transnational Re-Articulation of Genre in Kenya’s The Real Househelps of Kawangware
Mediated Life Writing on the Screen and/or Online
11:00 – 11:15
Break
11:15 – 13:00
Space-time and Genre
Nedine Moonsamy (Pretoria):
Edgar Nabutanyi (Makerere):
Colette Guldimann (Pretoria):
Jordan Stier (Pretoria):
SciFi as a launchpad: exploring escape through space-time travel in South African Literature
Fresh Critical Register, Activism and Global Circulation of Immaculate Innocent Achan’s Science Fiction
(South) African Crime Fiction and the New ‘World Literature’?
‘Jujutech’, Black Innovation and a Critique of Globalist History in Ekari Mbvundula’s “Montague’s Last”
13:00 – 13:45
Lunch
13:45 – 15:15
Form and Distance
Stefan Helgesson (Stockholm):
Mwenda Mbatiah (Nairobi):
Grace Musila (Wits):
‘The Literary Magazine as a World-Making Form: The Case of Charrua (1984-1986) in Mozambique
The Globalization of Afrophone Literature as Exemplified in Aniceti Kitereza’s Work
Dinaw Mengistu’s Refusals
15: 15 – 15:30
Break
15:30 – 16:30
What is Disobedience? Namwali Serpell, author of The Old Drift (2019) in conversation with Ranka Primorac