Performing Whitely in the Postcolony: Afrikaners in South African Theatrical and Public Life

by Megan Lewis

What does it mean to perform whiteness in the postcolonial era? To answer this question--crucial for understanding the changing meanings of race in the twenty-first century--Megan Lewis examines the ways that members of South Africa's Afrikaner minority have performed themselves into, around, and out of power from the colonial period to the postcolony. The nation's first European settlers and in the twentieth century the architects of apartheid,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609384474
• ISBN13: 9781609384470
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"