Anthony O'Brien

Against Normalization

Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 164mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780822325529
• ISBN-10: 0822325527
• Artikelnr.: 21630102

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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