03875oam 22005895 450 991086317230332120240619143220.03-030-55977-710.1007/978-3-030-55977-9(CKB)4100000011505511(MiAaPQ)EBC6371563(DE-He213)978-3-030-55977-9(PPN)255041446(EXLCZ)99410000001150551120201012d2020 uy 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierReading affect in post-apartheid literature South Africa's wounded feelings /Mark Libin1st ed. 2020.Springer International Publishing2020Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2020.1 online resourcePalgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism,2634-632X3-030-55976-9 3-030-55976-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism,2634-632XAffect (Psychology) in literatureSouth African literature (English)20th centuryHistory and criticismSouth African literature (English)21st centuryHistory and criticismSouth African literature20th centuryHistory and criticismSouth African literature21st centuryHistory and criticismAffect (Psychology) in literature.South African literature (English)History and criticism.South African literature (English)History and criticism.South African literatureHistory and criticism.South African literatureHistory and criticism.809.8968190Libin Mark1969-1740777MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910863172303321Reading affect in post-apartheid literature4166606UNINA