Title Post-apartheid criticism : perceptions of whiteness, homosexuality, and democracy in South Africa / Ives S. Loukson

Published Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource Series Lettre Lettre (Transcript (Firm)) Contents Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Abstract -- CHAPTER ONE: Introduction -- 1.1. Operationalization of key concepts -- 1.2. Literature review -- 1.3. Research hypothesis and research questions -- 1.4. Theory and methodology -- 1.5. Structure of the work -- CHAPTER TWO: Form and Signification: Idiosyncrasy of South African Post-Apartheid Narrative -- 2.1. Character: an incursion into the idiosyncrasy of South African Post-Apartheid Narrative -- 2.2. Spatialization in Post-Apartheid Narrative as a deconstruction of Post-apartheid South Africa -- 2.3. From fictional to autobiographic narrat4e -- CHAPTER THREE: South African Post-apartheid Hegemony. Discourse as Negation of Relation and Social Representations -- 3.1. Discourse and Relation: theoretical and historical springs of South African Post-apartheid hegemony -- 3.2. Roots of the portrayed Post-apartheid hegemony -- 3.3. How do social representations relate to discourse and Relation? -- CHAPTER FOUR: Extricating Democracy, Whiteness, and Homosexuality from Social Representations for the Embodiment of Relation in Post-Apartheid Narrative -- 4.1. Post-apartheid hegemony as shaped by the perceptions of homosexuality in "The Quiet Violence of Dreams" -- 4.2. Post-apartheid hegemony as shaped by the perceptions of whiteness in "Coconut" -- 4.3. Post-apartheid hegemony as shaped by the perceptions of democracy in "Dog Eat Dog" and "Memoirs of a Born Free" Summary South Africa' s post-apartheid narrative is one of democracy and equality - but its flaws run deep, argues Ives S. Loukson. Disclosing prejudices about whiteness, homosexuality and democracy in the "staged society", he claims the concept of relation as an adequate framework for the embodiment of "profane democracy" understood in Agambian terms. Its fluidity is equated to openness and transparency that are relevant dimensions for profane democracy. A demonstration of literary criticism practiced as a fecund interdisciplinary activity, Loukson's study lays the foundation for post-apartheid criticism different from post-colonial criticism Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 18, 2021) Subject South African literature (English) -- History and criticism Literature and society -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century Literature and society -- South Africa -- History -- 21st century Politics and literature -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century Politics and literature -- South Africa -- History -- 21st century Post-apartheid era -- South Africa Race relations in literature. Homosexuality in literature. Democracy in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM / General Democracy in literature Homosexuality in literature Literature Literature and society Politics and literature Post-apartheid era Race relations in literature South African literature (English) SUBJECT South Africa -- In literature Subject South Africa Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9783839449196 3839449197

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