Democracy at Home in South Africa

Family Fictions and Transitional Culture

Kerry Bystrom (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

205 Seiten

2015 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-56198-5 (ISBN)

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Focusing on aesthetic figuration diverse home spaces, modes of domestic life, and family histories, this book argues that depicting democracy as it unfolds literally at home presents a compelling portrait of the intimate and everyday aspects of change that can be overlooked by a focus on structural concerns in South Africa.

Kerry Bystrom is Associate Professor of English and Human Rights at Bard College, USA, and Bard College Berlin, Germany. She has published widely on South African literary and cultural studies in journals including Journal of Southern African Studies, African Studies, Social Dynamics, and Comparative Literature. She is the co-editor of a special issue of Cultural Studies on "Private Lives and Public Cultures in South Africa" (2013) and co-editor of a special issue of Journal of Human Rights on "Humanitarianism and Responsibility." She is an editorial board member of Safundi: A Journal of South African and American Studies.

Introduction 1. A "New" South African Family Romance 2. Remembering the Lost: On Family Members and Domestic Life 3. Keeping House 4. Queer Homes and Migrant Homes Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.11.2015
Reihe/Serie	Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
Zusatzinfo	XVII, 205 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-137-56198-X / 113756198X
ISBN-13	978-1-137-56198-5 / 9781137561985
Zustand	Neuware