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Reading Affect in Post-Apartheid Literature - South Africa's Wounded Feelings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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Reading Affect in Post-Apartheid Literature - South Africa's Wounded Feelings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism
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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. 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.
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