Rocío Cobo-Piñero
Biographic Data
| ID | 133791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rocío Cobo-Piñero |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rocío |
| FAMILY NAME | Cobo-Piñero |
| SIGNATURE | COBO-PIÑERO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Sevilla |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3814-7799 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Visual counternarratives: Trans-embodiments in Zanele Muholi’s Beulah and Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji
This study explores how portraiture and the colonial gaze are reframed by photographer Zanele Muholi and writer/visual artist Akwaeke Emezi as a means of depicting trans-embodiments in South Africa and Nigeria, respectively. I contend that both artists challenge heteronormative notions of the body to create a Black counter-archive that resists the violent regimes of invisibility to which transgender bodies are subjected in Africa. I discuss how M…
Queering the black Atlantic: Transgender spaces in Akwaeke Emezi’s writing and visual art
The last two decades have witnessed an emergence of African queer representations in literature and the arts that have been framed as interventions in cultural politics and as expressions of dissent. In this vein, I contend that it is necessary to consider queerness and diaspora together in order to rethink Gilroy's black Atlantic. Another important pursuit since the publication of The black Atlantic (1993) has been reclaiming the place of Africa…
Black Poetics of Affect: Intimate Public Encounters with Strangers in Claudia Rankine’s Just Us (2020)
This article aims to explore how Jamaican-born writer Claudia Rankine displays the ways in which, as a black woman and a first-generation migrant settled in the United States, she ‘regularly has to negotiate conscious and unconscious dismissal, erasure, disrespect, and abuse’ (Rankine [2020] Just Us: An American Conversation, New York: Penguin, p. 23). Just Us: An American Conversation is a genre-defying work that includes poems, essays, photogra…
Afrobeat Journeys: Tracing the Musical Archive in Sefi Atta'sA Bit of Difference
Sefi Atta has recently claimed that she considers herself an Afrobeat author, because she started writing in 1997, a month before Fela Kuti died and his music became more widely available outside of Nigeria. I contend that in A Bit of Difference (2013) Afrobeat music embodies the cultural signifier of transnational and local influences in contemporary Lagos and other Western urban spaces. The main character of the novel, Deola Bello, was born in …
From Africa to America: Precarious Belongings in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names
This article analyzes NoViolet Bulawayo’s critically acclaimed debut novel We Need New Names (2013), bringing to the fore the legacies of colonialism and the subsequent diaspora to the West. Like the work of other contemporary Afrodiasporic writers such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Taiye Selasi and Imbolo Mbue, Bulawayo’s narrative recreates the problematic space of dislocated, transnational migrants who are attached to a postcolonial and a metro…
Música y oralidad como formas de arqueología literaria memorias silenciadas de la esclavitud
Este artículo se propone analizar la arqueología literaria acometida por la escritora estadounidense Gayl Jones, quien utiliza la literatura como medio de revisión histórica. En el poema narrativo Song for Anninho, Jones combina música, poesía y oralidad para reconstruir -por medio de la imaginación y de hechos históricos, y desde un punto de vista femenino que incorpora los significados modernos del blues- la memoria de resistencia del Quilombo …
Visual counternarratives: Trans-embodiments in Zanele Muholi’s Beulah and Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji
This study explores how portraiture and the colonial gaze are reframed by photographer Zanele Muholi and writer/visual artist Akwaeke Emezi as a means of depicting trans-embodiments in South Africa and Nigeria, respectively. I contend that both artists challenge heteronormative notions of the body to create a Black counter-archive that resists the violent regimes of invisibility to which transgender bodies are subjected in Africa. I discuss how M…
Música y oralidad como formas de arqueología literaria memorias silenciadas de la esclavitud
Este artículo se propone analizar la arqueología literaria acometida por la escritora estadounidense Gayl Jones, quien utiliza la literatura como medio de revisión histórica. En el poema narrativo Song for Anninho, Jones combina música, poesía y oralidad para reconstruir -por medio de la imaginación y de hechos históricos, y desde un punto de vista femenino que incorpora los significados modernos del blues- la memoria de resistencia del Quilombo …
From Africa to America: Precarious Belongings in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names
This article analyzes NoViolet Bulawayo’s critically acclaimed debut novel We Need New Names (2013), bringing to the fore the legacies of colonialism and the subsequent diaspora to the West. Like the work of other contemporary Afrodiasporic writers such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Taiye Selasi and Imbolo Mbue, Bulawayo’s narrative recreates the problematic space of dislocated, transnational migrants who are attached to a postcolonial and a metro…
Afrobeat Journeys: Tracing the Musical Archive in Sefi Atta'sA Bit of Difference
Sefi Atta has recently claimed that she considers herself an Afrobeat author, because she started writing in 1997, a month before Fela Kuti died and his music became more widely available outside of Nigeria. I contend that in A Bit of Difference (2013) Afrobeat music embodies the cultural signifier of transnational and local influences in contemporary Lagos and other Western urban spaces. The main character of the novel, Deola Bello, was born in …
Queering the black Atlantic: Transgender spaces in Akwaeke Emezi’s writing and visual art
The last two decades have witnessed an emergence of African queer representations in literature and the arts that have been framed as interventions in cultural politics and as expressions of dissent. In this vein, I contend that it is necessary to consider queerness and diaspora together in order to rethink Gilroy's black Atlantic. Another important pursuit since the publication of The black Atlantic (1993) has been reclaiming the place of Africa…
Black Poetics of Affect: Intimate Public Encounters with Strangers in Claudia Rankine’s Just Us (2020)
This article aims to explore how Jamaican-born writer Claudia Rankine displays the ways in which, as a black woman and a first-generation migrant settled in the United States, she ‘regularly has to negotiate conscious and unconscious dismissal, erasure, disrespect, and abuse’ (Rankine [2020] Just Us: An American Conversation, New York: Penguin, p. 23). Just Us: An American Conversation is a genre-defying work that includes poems, essays, photogra…
Visual counternarratives: Trans-embodiments in Zanele Muholi’s Beulah and Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji
This study explores how portraiture and the colonial gaze are reframed by photographer Zanele Muholi and writer/visual artist Akwaeke Emezi as a means of depicting trans-embodiments in South Africa and Nigeria, respectively. I contend that both artists challenge heteronormative notions of the body to create a Black counter-archive that resists the violent regimes of invisibility to which transgender bodies are subjected in Africa. I discuss how M…
Art (5 works) · History (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (2 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works)