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Asserting Creative Agencies through the Sartorial: (Re)Fashioning African and African Diasporic Masculinities

In their essays for this themed edition, contributing writers consider ways in which the sartorial (hereafter referred to using Carol Tulloch’s [2010, 274] tripartite structure of “style–fashion–dress”)1 can be used as a means by which identities and subjectivities— specifically those of African and African diasporic masculine subjects (hereafter also referred to as “black2 masculinities”3)—are performed, imagined, represented, and constructed. The core thematics of the edition are focused on how, through these practices