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Title: | Re-Imagining South African Cultural Studies |
Authors: | Nuttall, Sarah Michael, Cheryl Ann |
Year: | 1999 |
Periodical: | African Sociological Review |
Volume: | 3 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 54-68 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | African studies culture ethnicity Bibliography/Research Education and Oral Traditions |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/24487403 |
Abstract: | While Cultural Studies has opened up new areas of study in the South African academy - a focus on marginalized cultural identities and on everyday life - it has done so within certain theoretical constraints. At least three major assumptions have dominated: the overdetermination of the political, the inflation of resistance, and the inflections given to race as a determinant of identity. Contemporary Cultural Studies in South Africa can open itself to new directions by unfixing identity, reclaiming the subcultural, reading pleasure, rewriting citizenship, and rethinking globalization. What is needed is to exit a set of narrow readings of South African culture and to think about intimacies and connectivities, everyday life and conceptualization of the human in ways that suggest a more open theorizing. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |