An Afropolitan Quest: A Contemporary Jeweller’s Inquiry into Identity and Identification in Post-Colonial Africa

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dc.contributor.advisorVan Robbroeck, Lizeen_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorTerreblanche, Carineen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorMashange, Bongani Tendai Percyen_ZA
dc.contributor.otherStellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts.en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-31T12:53:13Z
dc.date.available2025-03-31T12:53:13Z
dc.date.issued2024-12
dc.descriptionThesis (DPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2024.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractIn 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.en_ZA
dc.description.versionDoctoralen_ZA
dc.format.extent250 pagesen_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttps://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/131823
dc.publisherStellenbosch : Stellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.rights.holderStellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.titleAn Afropolitan Quest: A Contemporary Jeweller’s Inquiry into Identity and Identification in Post-Colonial Africaen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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