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Post-Apartheid Interregnum (Paperback)
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In this study, I share Nadine Gordimer's conception of an
interregnum as a period of indeterminacy characterized by
ambiguities, paradoxes, and contradictions. Consequently, I argue
that despite the political transformation in 1994, post-apartheid
South African literature reveals that the old binaries and
strictures of apartheid have been carried over into the present.
Thus, the new landscape in South Africa depicts ambiguities and
contradictions that are indicative of a process of interregnum.
Accordingly, I argue that post-apartheid South Africa presents a
picture of resistance to change and asserts that the process of
political transition to black rule would require a redefinition of
roles and relationships, self-sacrifice, and re-examination of
values. I focus on racial tension, prejudice and exploitation; I
examined violence, corruption, political ineptitude, suffering and
death as illustrative of disillusionment in the new South Africa.
Overall, I show that post-apartheid South Africa is characterized
by reversal of expectations, where the old is preventing the birth
of the new and that this constitutes a process of interregnum.
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