O'Brien / Fish / Jameson Against Normalization

Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8063-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 350 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Brien, Anthony

Fish, Stanley

Jameson, Fredric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen

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 Autor(innen)

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