Popular Spaces in Post-Apartheid Literature
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Popular Spaces in Post-Apartheid Literature

Race, Gender, and Liberation

  1. 201 pages
  2. English
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Popular Spaces in Post-Apartheid Literature

Race, Gender, and Liberation

About this book

Nafeesa T. Nichols analyzes how racialized and gendered spaces are presented in post-apartheid South African literature.

Through the examination of four novels, Kopano Matlwa's Coconut (2007), Zukiswa Wanner's The Madams (2006), Niq Mhlongo's After Tears (2007), and Kgebetli Moele's Room 207 (2006), Popular Spaces in Post-Apartheid Literature highlights the interconnections between space, race, gender, and popular culture within the post-apartheid South Africa. Nichols not only explores how post-1994 literature attempts to represent the realities of the post-apartheid condition, but also reveals the innovative and radical contributions that these young authors of the early twenty-first century made within the literary world.

This book mediates the dynamics and complexities of space in connection to race and gender, exemplifies the challenge of working with and in violent masculinist textual spaces, and conceptualizes the popular in connection with class, race, and gender struggles. Drawing on an interdisciplinary mix of Black feminist theory, feminist geographical perspectives, and spatial theory, Nichols provides a close reading of each of the selected texts, offering broader insights into the how Black subjects navigate various spaces of oppression. Through these novels, she shows how we are able to imagine the possibilities of liberatory spaces, celebrate local knowledge, creativity, the popular, and, most importantly, the beauty and resistance found in the everyday. In the end, this book contributes to the academic conversations that continue to take place surrounding gender, space, literature, and liberation in South Africa.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Popular Spaces: In Transition?
  9. Part I: Space
  10. Chapter 1: Critical Readings of Post-Apartheid Spaces: Geographies of Disillusionment and Blackness
  11. Chapter 2: “I Secretly Believe that Makhulu Is of Royal Blood”: Navigating Geographies of Containment and Concealment
  12. Part II: Gender
  13. Chapter 3: Intimate Violence and Sexual Assault in Kopano Matlwa’s Coconut: Carving Spaces of Feminist Liberation in Post-Apar heid South African Literature
  14. Chapter 4: Creative Interrogations of Gender and Space in Post-Apartheid Fiction
  15. Part III: Popular Spaces
  16. Chapter 5: Kwaito Aesthetics and Spaces of Liberation in Post-Apartheid South African Literature
  17. Chapter 6: “Stronger Together?”: Navigating Feminism and Popular Culture in Coconut and The Madams
  18. Conclusion
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index
  21. About the Author

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