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Entanglement is powerful and persuasive, passionate and perceptive. This is a major contribution to contemporary literary and cultural studies. While steeped in the rich particularities and trajectories of change in post-apartheid urban existence, it addresses the most urgent questions of global cultural and political formations.

Sarah Nuttall offers her readers new critical vocabularies with which to grasp the fictions of self-making, the politics and aesthetics of consumption, and the new and terrifying technologies of the sexualised body. Casting off the limited frameworks of postcolonial theory, Entanglement is concerned instead with a politics of the emergent in the Postcolony.

Hazel Carby, Yale University, New Haven

Sarah Nuttall’s book is a welcome addition to South African literary and cultural studies, taking us in new directions beyond the apartheid and even standard post-apartheid models. Moving through a variety of settings and moments both textual and non-textual, it is prepared to take risks in matters ranging from the ‘citiness’ of Johannesburg, to the recombinatory qualities of style, to the larger implications of violence in South Africa. Sometimes provocative, always thoughtful, never less than deeply engaged, and ultimately quite personal, its series of explorations allow Nuttall to shed the light of her lively intelligence on some of the intriguing, troubling, energising, and always complex manifestations of what will now come under her definition of ‘entanglement’ in an evolving South African world.

Stephen Clingman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst