Reading Affect in Post-Apartheid Literature

South Africa's Wounded Feelings

AvMark Libin

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

This book examines South Africa’s post-apartheid culture through the lens of affect theory in order to argue that the socio-political project of the “new” South Africa, best exemplified in their Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hearings, was fundamentally an affective, emotional project.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-10-14
Mått:148 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt:361 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism
Antal sidor:263
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030559793

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Mark Libin is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba, Canada.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter One: Apartheid’s Bitter Fruit.- Chapter Two: Domestic Bliss.- Chapter Three: “Revealing is Healing”: Ubuntu, the TRC Hearings, and the Transmission of Affect.- Chapter Four: Seeing and Time: Durational Time in Ubu and the Truth Commission and Long Night’s Journey into Day.- Chapter Five: Compassion Fatigue: White Empathy and White Guilt in Antjie Krog’s Country of My Skull and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace.- Chapter Six: Shame, Guilt, and Complicity in Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples and Sindiwe Magona’s Mother to Mother.- Chapter Seven: Conclusion: How Close is Too Close? Anger, Reconciliation, and the “Born Free” Generation.