Reading Affect in Post-Apartheid Literature: South Africa's Wounded Feelings - Couverture souple

Libin, Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3030559793 ISBN 13 : 9783030559793

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

Synopsis

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. Through the TRC hearings, which publicly broadcast the testimonies of both victims and perpetrators of gross human rights violations, the African National Congress government of South Africa, represented by Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, endeavoured to generate powerful emotions of contrition and sympathy in order to build an empathetic bond between white and black citizens, a bond referred to frequently by Tutu in terms of the African philosophy of interconnection: ubuntu. This book explores the representations of affect, and the challenges of generating ubuntu, through close readings of a variety of cultural products: novels, poetry, memoir, drama, documentary film and audio anthology.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3030559793
• ISBN 13: 9783030559793
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 276
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