Convening Black Intimacy

Natasha Erlank

Description

Convening Black Intimacy demonstrates that the primary affective force in the construction of modern Black intimate life in early twentieth-century South Africa was not the commonly cited influx of migrant workers but rather the spread of Christianity. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, African converts adopted and molded ideas derived from colonial encounters with Europe and refashioned them as part of the identity of Black middle-class Christians. They created a new conception of intimate life that shaped ideas about sexuality, gender roles, and morality.

While the ways of understanding intimacy that Christianity informed enjoyed broad appeal because they partially aligned with traditional ways, other individuals were drawn to how the new ideas broke with tradition. In either case, Natasha Erlank argues that what Black South Africans regard today as tradition has been unequivocally altered by Christianity.

Erlank draws from a wide range of sources, including popular Black literature and the Black press, African church and mission archives, and records of the South African law courts.The book is sure to attract scholars interested in the history of African Christianity, African families, sexuality, and the social history of law.

List of Illustrations

Some Notes on Terminology

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1 Convening Christian Publics: Churches, Newspapers, and Customary Courts

Chapter 2 Modern Masculinity

Chapter 3 Love, Sex, and Consequence

Chapter 4 Marriage and Lobola and the Imagining of Black Intimate Life

Chapter 5 Weddings and Status, Consumption and Reciprocity

Chapter 6 Polygamy, Multiple Conjugality, and Masihlalisane

Conclusion: Black Intimacy into the Present

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Sujets

• Christianisme
• Afrique du Sud
• Africa
• History
• General
• History of Africa
• General officer
• Christianity in Africa
• South Africa
• Sudáfrica
• Histoire
• African Studies

Informations

• Publié par: WITS University Press
• Date de parution: 01 novembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781776148172
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 9 Mo

Extrait

Convening Black Intimacy

Convening Black Intimacy

Cristianity, Gender, and Tradition in Early Twentiet-Century Sout Africa

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Contents

 ŝ ô ïûŝàôŝ  Sôé Nôéŝ ô Téôô  Açkôwééŝ  Abbéàôŝ

 ïôûçô Capter 1 Côé Cŝà Pûbçŝ Curces, Newspapers, and Customary Courts Capter 2 Môé Màŝçû Capter 3 ôé, Sé, à Côŝéqûéçé Capter 4à ôbôà à é ïà ô Mààé Bàçk ïàé é Capter 5à Sàûŝ, Côŝûô à Réçôç Wéŝ Capter 6 Pôà, Mûé Côjûà, à Màŝàŝàé  Côçûŝô Back ïntîmacy înto te Present

Nôéŝ  Bbôà  ïé

   

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  

  

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  

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Illustrations

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 . ô àé ô à çàŝé ôé  é àéà çôû  é Càé    . “Tôw à Côû Néwŝ,”Umteteî wa Bantu,  Oçôbé  . à . ïàéŝ àç û é ççûçŝô çééô, çà. àé ééé çéû  . éé “K,” Dôô Kàbàé ô Sébôûé Bôkwé,  Jàûà   . éé “,” Sébôûé Bôkwé ô Dôô Kàbàé,  ébûà  . à . Péçéŝ ô àé ééé àŝ ééçé ô à çàŝé àbôû éŝôàô ô ôbôà, Wéô Gwàû . é ûbàbô Càŝé /  . Pôôàŝ ô çûç wéŝ, çà.  . à . A çûç wé  é Eàŝé Càé  é ŝ

TABE

 . Kàbàé éé éŝé

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

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–



  

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