“What I wanted to get at in this book is the political value of multiple forms of excess and exuberance.”

In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Xavier Livermon .

Livermon is Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His book is Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Post-Apartheid South Africa.

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