Against Normalization - Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa

A literary study of South African cultural changes since the end of apartheid from 1980 to present.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Normalization or Radical Democracy

1. Radical Democracy and the Electoral Sublime

2. Njabulo Ndebele and Radical-Democratic Culture

3. Against Normalization: Cultural Identity from Below

4. Staging Whiteness: Beckett, Havel, Maponya

5. Locations of Feminism: Ingrid de Kok’s Familiar Ground

6. No Turning Back: Nise Malange and the Onset of Workers’ Culture

7. Lines of Flight: Bessie Head, Arthur Nortje, Dambudzo Marechera

Epilogue: Postapartheid Narratives: The House Gun and Fools

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Anthony O’Brien is Associate Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York.

Zusammenfassung

Examines South African literature and theoretical writings that resist the neocolonial outcome. This book is useful to specialists in South African fiction, poetry, history, and politics, to other Africanists, and to those in the fields of colonial, postcolonial, race, and gender studies.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Anthony O'Brien, O'Brien, Anthony O'Brien
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 13.04.2001
• EAN: 9780822325529
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2552-9
• Seiten: 352
• Abmessung: 164 mm x 238 mm x 30 mm
• Gewicht: 703 g
• Serien: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft