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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483250403321

Autore

Libin Mark

Titolo

Reading affect in post-apartheid literature : South Africa's wounded feelings / / Mark Libin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

3-030-55977-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism

Disciplina

809.8968

Soggetti

South African literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter One: Apartheid’s Bitter Fruit -- Chapter Two: Domestic Bliss -- Chapter Three: “Revealing is Healing”: Ubuntu, the TRC Hearings, and the Transmission of Affect -- Chapter Four: Seeing and Time: Durational Time in Ubu and the Truth Commission and Long Night’s Journey into Day -- Chapter Five: Compassion Fatigue: White Empathy and White Guilt in Antjie Krog’s Country of My Skull and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace -- Chapter Six: Shame, Guilt, and Complicity in Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples and Sindiwe Magona’s Mother to Mother -- Chapter Seven: Conclusion: How Close is Too Close? Anger, Reconciliation, and the “Born Free” Generation.