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

Published Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource : color illustrations 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Race relations. Race relations in literature. Cultural relations in literature. Race awareness in literature. South African literature -- History and criticism Popular culture -- South Africa White people -- Race identity -- South Africa City and town life in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. HISTORY -- Africa -- General. City and town life in literature Cultural relations in literature Literature Popular culture Race awareness in literature Race relations Race relations in literature South African literature White people -- Race identity SUBJECT South Africa -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125494 Johannesburg (South Africa) -- In literature Subject South Africa South Africa -- Johannesburg Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781868149414 1868149412 9781868146321 1868146324

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