INTRODUCTION: Private lives and public cultures in South Africa

Cultural Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 307-332

  Bystrom, Kerry ^a   Nuttall, Sarah ^b  

^a BARD COLLEGE BERLIN   (Germany)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

autobiographical acts; inequality; intimate exposure; logics of enclosure; public private sphere; structures of feeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877298844     PISSN: 09502386     EISSN: 14664348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2013.777295     Document Type: Article

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