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Reading Affect in Post-Apartheid Literature

South Africa's Wounded Feelings

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvMark Libin

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-10-13
Mått148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt473 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism
Antal sidor263
Upplaga20001
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030559762

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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.