Entanglement : literary and cultural reflections on post apartheid / Sarah Nuttall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nuttall, Sarah, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race relations.

Race relations in literature.

Cultural relations in literature.

Race awareness in literature.

South African literature--History and criticism.

South African literature.

Popular culture--South Africa.

Popular culture.

White people--Race identity--South Africa.

White people.

City and town life in literature.

South Africa--Race relations.

South Africa.

Johannesburg (South Africa)--In literature.

Johannesburg (South Africa).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 198 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2009.

Summary:

This original book is a much needed and far reaching exploration of post-apartheid South African life worlds. Entanglement aims to capture the contradictory mixture of innovation and inertia, of loss, violence and xenophobia as well as experimentation and desegregation, which characterises the present. The author explores the concept of entanglement in relation to readings of literature, new media forms and painting. In the process, she moves away from a persistent apartheid optic, drawing on ideas of sameness and difference, and their limits, in order to elicit ways of living and imagining that are just starting to take shape and for which we might not yet have a name. In the background of her investigations lies a preoccupation with a future-oriented politics, one that builds on largely unexplored terrains of mutuality while being attentive to a historical experience of confrontation and injury.

Contents:

1 Entanglement 17

2 Literary City 33

3 Secrets and Lies 58

4 Surface and Underneath 83

5 Self-Styling 108

6 Girl Bodies 132.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-191) and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 May 2018).

ISBN:

1-86814-632-4

1-86814-941-2

OCLC:

959875373