Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood: South African Culture and the World Beyond

by Rob Nixon

Overview

Originally published in 1994, Homelands, Harlem & Hollywood examines the anti-colonialist struggle against apartheid, and the ways in which American and South African culture have been fascinated with and influenced by one another. Rob Nixon’s wide-ranging analysis looks at Hollywood representations of the struggle for liberation, the impact of the Harlem Renaissance on the Sophiatown writers, the banning and censorship of television under apartheid, Mandela and messianic politics, the sports and cultural boycotts, ethnic nationalism, and the culture of violence. Nixon concludes with an investigation of how the collapse of communism and anti-communism and the rise of ethnic cleansing in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union had powerful implications for the shape of post-apartheid South Africa.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032319025
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/25/2024
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: South Africa
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Rob Nixon is the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Family Professor in the Humanities and the Environment at Princeton University, USA.

Table of Contents

Part 1: The American Connection 1. Harlem, Hollywood and the Sophiatown Renaissance 2. The Devil in the Black Box 3. Cry White Season Part 2: Exit Visas and No Entry Signs 4. Border Country 5. Apartheid on the Run 6. Sunset on Sun City Part 3: South African Culture and the Aftermath of the Cold War 7. Mandela, Messianism and the Media 8. An Everybody Claim Dem Democratic 9. The Retreat from Communism and Anti-Communism 10. Of Balkans and Bantustans.

Editorial Reviews

'Nixon has done an excellent job of deconstructing the dubious roles South Africa has been made to play in the mind of an erratic yet persistent international imagination...vastly informative and tactfully moving.' Rosemary Jolly, Research in African Literatures, Vol 28, No.2.

'For scholars especially involved in examining the much contested features of South African cultural history, Nixon’s book is extraordinarily important.' Jeanne M. Colleran, Modern Fiction Studies, Vol 42, No. 1

'Even the reader reasonably well acquainted with South African culture is likely to learn a good deal from Nixon's well-researched and informed discussion.' Brian Crow, African Affairs, Vol 95, No. 378.

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