Entanglement: Literary and Cultural Reflections on Post-Apartheid

✍ Scribed by Sarah Nuttall

• Publisher: Wits University Press
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
1. Entanglement......Page 28
2. Literary City......Page 44
3. Secrets and Lies......Page 69
4. Surface and Underneath......Page 94
5. Self-Styling......Page 119
6. Girl Bodies......Page 143
Conclusion......Page 162
Notes......Page 172
Bibliography......Page 186
Index......Page 203