Entanglement: Literary and Cultural Reflections on Post-Apartheid

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.

Author: Sarah Nuttall
Publisher: Wits University Press
Published: 08/01/2009
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781868144761
ISBN10: 1868144763
BISAC Categories:
- Non-Classifiable | Non-Classifiable

About the Author
Sarah Nuttall is Director of the Wits Institute for Social & Economic Research (WiSER) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.