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Democracy at Home in South Africa : Family Fictions and Transitional Culture / by Kerry Bystrom.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bystrom, Kerry., Author.
- Series:
- Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora, 2946-3807
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Africa.
- Ethnology.
- Culture.
- Theater--History.
- Theater.
- Arts.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Civilization--History.
- Civilization.
- African Culture.
- Theatre History.
- Cultural Theory.
- Cultural History.
- Local Subjects:
- African Culture.
- Theatre History.
- Arts.
- Cultural Theory.
- Cultural History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2016.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Focusing on aesthetic figuration diverse home spaces, modes of domestic life, and family histories, this book argues that depicting democracy as it unfolds literally at home presents a compelling portrait of the intimate and everyday aspects of change that can be overlooked by a focus on structural concerns in South Africa.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- A "new" South African family romance
- Remembering the lost : on family members and domestic life
- Keeping house
- Queer homes and migrant homes
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137556929
- 1137556927
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