Sarah A Nuttall

Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa

Senses of Culture: South African Cultural Studies

Beautiful Ugly: African And Diaspora Aesthetics

Beautiful/ Ugly: African And Diaspora Aesthetics

Beautiful/ Ugly: African And Diaspora Aesthetics

At Risk: Writing On and Over the Edge of Souh Africa

risk n 1 the possibility of bringing about misfortune or loss ... to act in spite of the possibility of injury or loss (Collins English Dictionary)Living with risk is part of living in South Africa now. Violent crime and AIDS pose bodily threats. Dizzying shifts in race and class rock one’s sense of...

Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa

This collection of essays by South African academics looks at the ways the country is dealing with its past, a complex mixture of colonialism, slavery, apartheid, struggle, and guilt. The emphasis is on how that past is being perceived and molded in the post-apartheid era.

Load-Shedding: Writing on and over the edge of South Africa

Load-shedding is a collection of non-fiction stories from South Africa’s pre-eminent authors, journalists and commentators - and is a follow-up volume to Liz McGregor and Sarah Nuttall’s well-received first such collection, At Risk. Published at a time of great uncertainty – during the so-called “Se...

Senses of Culture: South African Culture Studies

Everyday life in South Africa has been dominated by the politics of racial identities, while such identities form and re-form around a range of cultural activities and practices. This book traces the important dimensions of cultural activity in late twentieth-century South Africa, offering a multidi...

Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia

Text, Theory, Space is a landmark in post-colonial criticism and theory. Focusing on two white settler societies, South Africa and Australia, the contributors investigate the meaning of 'the South' as an aesthetic, political, geographical and cultural space. Drawing upon a wide range of disciplines ...

Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis (a Public Culture Book)

Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa’s largest city into urban theory, on its own terms. Johannesburg is Africa’s premier metropolis. Yet theories of urbanization have cast it as an emblem of irresolvable crisis, the spatial embodiment of unequal economi...

Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics

In Cameroon, a monumental “statue of liberty” is made from scrap metal. In Congo, a thriving popular music incorporates piercing screams and carnal dances. When these and other instantiations of the aesthetics of Africa and its diasporas are taken into account, how are ideas of beauty reconfigured? ...

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 prese...