Shifting selves : post-apartheid essays on mass media, culture and identity / edited by Herman Wasserman and Sean Jacobs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wasserman, Herman, 1969-

Jacobs, Sean.

Series:

Social identities South Africa series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Social aspects--South Africa.

Mass media.

Mass media and culture--South Africa.

Mass media and culture.

Identity (Psychology)--South Africa.

Identity (Psychology).

Civilization.

Mass media--Social aspects.

South Africa--Civilization--20th century.

South Africa.

South Africa--Civilization--21st century.

Physical Description:

340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cape Town : Kwela, 2003.

Summary:

Sparked by the enormous political changes in South Africa since the fall of apartheid, the essays in this collection focus on the rapidly changing nature of South African mass media, art, and other forms of aesthetic expression. Blending empirical research with a wide range of perspectives and academic disciplines, many essays explore the possibility for new forms of nationality, identity, and solidarity that have blossomed during the 21st century and examine which cultural limits persist. Also included is the work of many young researchers whose ages place them in a unique position to comment on the seismic cultural shifts that have occurred since the end of the apartheid regime.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0795701640

OCLC:

52993216