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  title info:
    title: Black cultural life in South Africa
    sub title: reception, apartheid, and ethics
  name:
    name part: Saint, Lily
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)
    role:
      role term: issuing body.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: Under apartheid, black South Africans experienced severe material and social disadvantages occasioned by the government's policies, and they had limited time for entertainment. Still, they closely engaged with an array of textual and visual cultures in ways that shaped their responses to this period of ethical crisis. Marshaling forms of historical evidence that include passbooks, memoirs, American "B" movies, literary and genre fiction, magazines, and photocomics, Black Cultural Life in South Africa considers the importance of popular genres and audiences in the relationship between ethical consciousness and aesthetic engagement. This study provocatively posits that states of oppression, including colonial and postcolonial rule, can elicit ethical responses to imaginative identification through encounters with popular culture, and it asks whether and how they carry over into ethical action. Its consideration of how globalized popular culture "travels" not just in material form, but also through the circuits of the imaginary, opens a new window for exploring the ethical and liberatory stakes of popular culture. Each chapter focuses on a separate genre, yet the overall interdisciplinary approach to the study of genre and argument for an expansion of ethical theory that draws on texts beyond the Western canon speak to growing concerns about studying genres and disciplines in isolation. Freed from oversimplified treatments of popular forms-common to cultural studies and ethical theory alike-this book demonstrates that people can do things with mass culture that reinvigorate ethical life. Lily Saint's new volume will interest Africanists across the humanities and the social sciences, and scholars of Anglophone literary, globalization, and cultural studies; race; ethical theories and philosophies; film studies; book history and material cultures; and the burgeoning field of comics and graphic novels.
  table of contents: Introduction: Ethical theory is postcolonial theory -- Black books, White bodies: reimagining the passcheck -- "Blood and thunder": popular film and Black spectatorship at the midcentury -- Race, reading, and the photocomic -- Writing ethics after apartheid.
  note: Lily Saint.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-sa---
  subject:
    topic: Blacks
    geographic: South Africa
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Blacks
    geographic: South Africa
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Popular culture
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
    geographic: South Africa
  subject:
    topic: Apartheid
    geographic: South Africa
  classification: DT1758 .S25 2018
  related item:
    title info:
      title: African perspectives (University of Michigan. Press)
  identifier: 9780472124244
  identifier: 9780472074006
  identifier: 9780472054008
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: MiU
    record creation date: 180827
    record change date: 20221129150703.1
    record identifier: in00004606160
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng