Ginsburg Rebecca At Home with Apartheid: The Hidden Landscapes of Domestic Service in Johannesburg 9780813946436

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Автор: Ginsburg Rebecca
Название: At Home with Apartheid: The Hidden Landscapes of Domestic Service in Johannesburg
ISBN: 9780813946436
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Изобразительное искусство: описания и объекты

История архитектуры

ISBN-10: 0813946433
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 248
Вес: 0.36 кг.
Дата издания: 24.02.2021
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: (2)
Размер: 22.86 x 15.24 x 1.85 cm
Ключевые слова: African history,Art treatments & subjects,History of architecture,Social & cultural history, ARCHITECTURE / History / General,ART / Art & Politics
Подзаголовок: The hidden landscapes of domestic service in johannesburg
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Despite their peaceful, bucolic appearance, the tree-lined streets of South African suburbia were no refuge from the racial tensions and indignities of apartheids most repressive years. In At Home with Apartheid, Rebecca Ginsburg provides an intimate examination of the cultural landscapes of Johannesburgs middle- and upper-middle-class neighborhoods during the height of apartheid (c. 1960–1975) and incorporates recent scholarship on gender, the home, and family. More subtly but no less significantly than factory floors, squatter camps, prisons, and courtrooms, the homes of white South Africans were sites of important contests between white privilege and black aspiration. Subtle negotiations within the domestic sphere between white, mostly female, householders and their black domestic workers, also primarily women, played out over and around this space. These seemingly mundane, private conflicts were part of larger contemporary struggles between whites and blacks over territory and power. Ginsburg gives special attention to the distinct social and racial geographies produced by the workers detached living quarters, designed by builders and architects as landscape complements to the main houses. Ranch houses, Italianate villas, modernist cubes, and Victorian bungalows filled Johannesburgs suburbs. What distinguished these neighborhoods from their precedents in the United States or the United Kingdom was the presence of the ubiquitous back rooms and of the African women who inhabited them in these otherwise exclusively white areas. The author conducted more than seventy-five personal interviews for this book, an approach that sets it apart from other architectural histories. In addition to these oral accounts, Ginsburg draws from plans, drawings, and onsite analysis of the physical properties themselves. While the issues addressed span the disciplines of South African and architectural history, feminist studies, material culture studies, and psychology, the books strong narrative, powerful oral histories, and compelling subject matter bring the neighborhoods and residents it examines vividly to life.
Дополнительное описание: History of architecture|The Arts: treatments and subjects|African history|Social and cultural history

At Home with Apartheid: The Hidden Landscapes of Domestic Service in Johannesburg, Ginsburg Rebecca