LEADER 03875oam 22005895 450 001 9910863172303321 005 20240619143220.0 010 $a3-030-55977-7 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-55977-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000011505511 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6371563 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-55977-9 035 $a(PPN)255041446 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011505511 100 $a20201012d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aReading affect in post-apartheid literature $eSouth Africa's wounded feelings /$fMark Libin 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 $cSpringer International Publishing$d2020 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism,$x2634-632X 311 0 $a3-030-55976-9 311 $a3-030-55976-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 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. 330 $aThis book examines South Africa?s post-apartheid culture through the lens of affect theory in order to argue that the socio-political project of the ?new? South Africa, best exemplified in their Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hearings, was fundamentally an affective, emotional project. Through the TRC hearings, which publicly broadcast the testimonies of both victims and perpetrators of gross human rights violations, the African National Congress government of South Africa, represented by Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, endeavoured to generate powerful emotions of contrition and sympathy in order to build an empathetic bond between white and black citizens, a bond referred to frequently by Tutu in terms of the African philosophy of interconnection: ubuntu. This book explores the representations of affect, and the challenges of generating ubuntu, through close readings of a variety of cultural products: novels, poetry, memoir, drama, documentary film and audio anthology. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism,$x2634-632X 606 $aAffect (Psychology) in literature 606 $aSouth African literature (English)$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSouth African literature (English)$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSouth African literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSouth African literature$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAffect (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aSouth African literature (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSouth African literature (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSouth African literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSouth African literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809.8968 676 $a190 700 $aLibin$b Mark$f1969-$01740777 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910863172303321 996 $aReading affect in post-apartheid literature$94166606 997 $aUNINA