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"Bystrom is a master synthesizer who lucidly lays out complex debates and compellingly places her own concerns in their context. The debates on democracy place this study squarely in the humanistic discussion that has evolved around human rights in the last ten years, and where the case of South Africa is a central paradigm. Bystrom's prose is clear and subtle at the same time, and her enormous range of reference will be an invaluable tool for both experts in the field and other audiences who may want to enter the field." - Eleni Coundouriotis, University of Connecticut, USA
"An outstanding intellectual meditation on transitional culture in South Africa's first fifteen years of democracy. Bystrom is right: the imaginative acts of the extended transition are valuable to us now, as we enter an altogether darker period of historical reckoning and reflection - and look for the forming swells of a future we can recognize." - Sarah Nuttall, author of Entanglement: Literary and Cultural Reflections on Post-apartheid
"Democracy at Home in South Africa is a magnificent and unmatched study of the micro-politics of transition and democratic experiment in South Africa and the aesthetic traditions that have emerged to plot the nation beyond the entanglements of historical trauma, race, and nationalism. Working across the spectrum of South African literature and art after apartheid, Bystrom provides us with one of the best explorations of the role of the family and home in the South African democratic experiment." - Simon Gikandi, Professor, English, Princeton University, USA
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Book Title: Democracy at Home in South Africa
Book Subtitle: Family Fictions and Transitional Culture
Authors: Kerry Bystrom
Series Title: Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137556929
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56198-5Published: 04 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55692-9Published: 26 January 2016
Series ISSN: 2946-3793
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3807
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 205
Topics: African Culture, Theatre History, Arts, Cultural Theory, Cultural History