A literary study of South African cultural changes since the end of apartheid from 1980 to present.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Normalization or Radical Democracy
1. Radical Democracy and the Electoral Sublime
2. Njabulo Ndebele and Radical-Democratic Culture
3. Against Normalization: Cultural Identity from Below
4. Staging Whiteness: Beckett, Havel, Maponya
5. Locations of Feminism: Ingrid de Kok’s Familiar Ground
6. No Turning Back: Nise Malange and the Onset of Workers’ Culture
7. Lines of Flight: Bessie Head, Arthur Nortje, Dambudzo Marechera
Epilogue: Postapartheid Narratives: The House Gun and Fools
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Anthony O’Brien is Associate Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York.