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.
Price: $60.00
Pages: 282
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Lettre
Publication Date:
15 May 2020
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837649192
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Ives S. Loukson (PhD) was born in 1981. He holds degrees from the Universities of Yaoundé 1/Cameroon and Bayreuth/Germany. His research interests include cultural studies, post-colonial studies, Francophone and Anglophone literary studies, creative writing, and German as foreign language.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgements 9
List of Abbreviations 11
Abstract 13
CHAPTER ONE: Introduction 15
CHAPTER TWO: Form and Signification: Idiosyncrasy of South African Post-Apartheid Narrative 53
CHAPTER THREE: South African post-apartheid Hegemony. Discourse as Negation of Relation and Social Representations 101
CHAPTER FOUR: Extricating Democracy, Whiteness, and Homosexuality from Social Representations for the Embodiment of Relation in post-apartheid Narrative 139
CHAPTER FIVE: Relation as aesthetics Intervention of Post-Apartheid Narrative for a truly and inclusive (profane) Democracy 193
CHAPTER SIX: Conclusion. Toward Post-Apartheid Criticism 247
Works Cited 263
