Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood

Rob Nixon is the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Family Professor in the Humanities and the Environment at Princeton University, USA.

• Part 1: The American Connection 1. Harlem, Hollywood and the Sophiatown Renaissance 2. The Devil in the Black Box 3. Cry White Season Part 2: Exit Visas and No Entry Signs 4. Border Country 5. Apartheid on the Run 6. Sunset on Sun City Part 3: South African Culture and the Aftermath of the Cold War 7. Mandela, Messianism and the Media 8. An Everybody Claim Dem Democratic 9. The Retreat from Communism and Anti-Communism 10. Of Balkans and Bantustans.

'Nixon has done an excellent job of deconstructing the dubious roles South Africa has been made to play in the mind of an erratic yet persistent international imagination...vastly informative and tactfully moving.' Rosemary Jolly, Research in African Literatures, Vol 28, No.2. 'For scholars especially involved in examining the much contested features of South African cultural history, Nixon’s book is extraordinarily important.' Jeanne M. Colleran, Modern Fiction Studies, Vol 42, No. 1'Even the reader reasonably well acquainted with South African culture is likely to learn a good deal from Nixon's well-researched and informed discussion.' Brian Crow, African Affairs, Vol 95, No. 378.