Against Normalization: Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa

by Anthony O'Brien

At the end of apartheid, under pressure from local and transnational capital and the hegemony of Western-style parliamentary democracy, South Africans felt called upon to normalize their conceptions of economics, politics, and culture in line with these Western models. In Against Normalization, however, Anthony O'Brien examines recent South African literature and theoretical debate which take a different line, resisting this neocolonial outcome,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822325713
• ISBN13: 9780822325710
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"