Jordache Abner Ellapen
Biographic Data
| ID | 224903 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jordache Abner Ellapen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jordache Abner |
| FAMILY NAME | Ellapen |
| SIGNATURE | ELLAPEN J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1060-5428 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Indentured vulnerability
Brown femininities and the queer erotics of indentureship
This photo essay curates two interrelated bodies of creative work, Queering the Archive: Brown Bodies in Ecstasy (2013-ongoing) and The Brown Photo Album: An Archive of Feminist Futurities (2020), to explore the queer afterlives of indentureship in South Africa through the aesthetic realm. Queering the Archive and The Brown Photo Album are influenced by the photo archive of an Afro-Indian family from rural Kwa Zulu Natal. The curation of these tw…
Siyakaka Feminism
114 Feminist Studies 47, no. 1. © 2021 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Jordache A. Ellapen Siyakaka Feminism: African Anality and the Politics of Deviance in FAKA’s Performance Art Praxis In 2015, FAKA, a black femme multimedia art collective, emerged on the South African art scene and immediately drew local and global attention to their use of performance art as a disruptive aesthetic strategy . FAKA consists of two members, Thato Ramaisa and Buyani D…
The Brown Photo Album
This photo-essay considers the other lives of family photographs by offering an analysis of my mother's collection of professional studio portraits and other vernacular photographs shot between the mid 1950s and late 1960s. How do we read the photo-archive of an 'Indian' woman born in 1941 to parents who were wards of the colonial state? A woman who was one generation removed from the sugar-cane plantations and coal mines where Indians were inden…
Geographies of the Black African Masculine in Tsotsi and The Wooden Camera
This article examines the various representations of black masculinities in the films Tsotsi (dir. Gavin Hood, 2005) and The Wooden Camera (dir. Ntshavheni wa Luruli, 2003) in order to complicate the manner in which an authentic black African masculinity has become conflated with the tsotsi (gangster) figure in South African cinema. This article begins with the examination of two film posters used to promote Tsosti and The Wooden Camera in France…
Cinema in Postapartheid South Africa
Cinema in Postapartheid South Africa: New Perspectives Haseenah Ebrahim (bio) and Jordache A. Ellapen (bio) As we approach a quarter of a century of democracy in South Africa, this special Close-Up offers fresh perspectives that reflect critically on cinema and film culture in South Africa. Our contributors address developments within an industry and a creative culture that once marginalized the majority Black (African, Indian, Coloured) South Af…
When the Moon Waxes Red
This essay focuses on South African artist Sharlene Khan's 2016 multimedia project When the Moon Waxes Red in order to examine political culture in postapartheid South Africa. At the heart of Khan's project is the Indian indentureship experience. The author argues that the return to the indentureship experience in cultural production disrupts the linear progressive narrative of the postapartheid nation by revealing how the traumas of the past res…
The cinematic township
2007). The cinematic township: cinematic representations of the ‘township space’ and who can claim the rights to representation in post-apartheid South African cinema. Journal of African Cultural Studies: Vol. 19, Performing (in) everyday life, pp. 113-138
The cinematic township
2007). The cinematic township: cinematic representations of the ‘township space’ and who can claim the rights to representation in post-apartheid South African cinema. Journal of African Cultural Studies: Vol. 19, Performing (in) everyday life, pp. 113-138
The Brown Photo Album
This photo-essay considers the other lives of family photographs by offering an analysis of my mother's collection of professional studio portraits and other vernacular photographs shot between the mid 1950s and late 1960s. How do we read the photo-archive of an 'Indian' woman born in 1941 to parents who were wards of the colonial state? A woman who was one generation removed from the sugar-cane plantations and coal mines where Indians were inden…
Brown femininities and the queer erotics of indentureship
This photo essay curates two interrelated bodies of creative work, Queering the Archive: Brown Bodies in Ecstasy (2013-ongoing) and The Brown Photo Album: An Archive of Feminist Futurities (2020), to explore the queer afterlives of indentureship in South Africa through the aesthetic realm. Queering the Archive and The Brown Photo Album are influenced by the photo archive of an Afro-Indian family from rural Kwa Zulu Natal. The curation of these tw…
The cinematic township
2007). The cinematic township: cinematic representations of the ‘township space’ and who can claim the rights to representation in post-apartheid South African cinema. Journal of African Cultural Studies: Vol. 19, Performing (in) everyday life, pp. 113-138
When the Moon Waxes Red
This essay focuses on South African artist Sharlene Khan's 2016 multimedia project When the Moon Waxes Red in order to examine political culture in postapartheid South Africa. At the heart of Khan's project is the Indian indentureship experience. The author argues that the return to the indentureship experience in cultural production disrupts the linear progressive narrative of the postapartheid nation by revealing how the traumas of the past res…
Geographies of the Black African Masculine in Tsotsi and The Wooden Camera
This article examines the various representations of black masculinities in the films Tsotsi (dir. Gavin Hood, 2005) and The Wooden Camera (dir. Ntshavheni wa Luruli, 2003) in order to complicate the manner in which an authentic black African masculinity has become conflated with the tsotsi (gangster) figure in South African cinema. This article begins with the examination of two film posters used to promote Tsosti and The Wooden Camera in France…
Cinema in Postapartheid South Africa
Cinema in Postapartheid South Africa: New Perspectives Haseenah Ebrahim (bio) and Jordache A. Ellapen (bio) As we approach a quarter of a century of democracy in South Africa, this special Close-Up offers fresh perspectives that reflect critically on cinema and film culture in South Africa. Our contributors address developments within an industry and a creative culture that once marginalized the majority Black (African, Indian, Coloured) South Af…
The Brown Photo Album
This photo-essay considers the other lives of family photographs by offering an analysis of my mother's collection of professional studio portraits and other vernacular photographs shot between the mid 1950s and late 1960s. How do we read the photo-archive of an 'Indian' woman born in 1941 to parents who were wards of the colonial state? A woman who was one generation removed from the sugar-cane plantations and coal mines where Indians were inden…
Siyakaka Feminism
114 Feminist Studies 47, no. 1. © 2021 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Jordache A. Ellapen Siyakaka Feminism: African Anality and the Politics of Deviance in FAKA’s Performance Art Praxis In 2015, FAKA, a black femme multimedia art collective, emerged on the South African art scene and immediately drew local and global attention to their use of performance art as a disruptive aesthetic strategy . FAKA consists of two members, Thato Ramaisa and Buyani D…
Brown femininities and the queer erotics of indentureship
This photo essay curates two interrelated bodies of creative work, Queering the Archive: Brown Bodies in Ecstasy (2013-ongoing) and The Brown Photo Album: An Archive of Feminist Futurities (2020), to explore the queer afterlives of indentureship in South Africa through the aesthetic realm. Queering the Archive and The Brown Photo Album are influenced by the photo archive of an Afro-Indian family from rural Kwa Zulu Natal. The curation of these tw…
Indentured vulnerability
Gender Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · South African History and Culture (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Law (4 works)