Postapartheid Narratives: Reconciliation and Its Discontents

by Sam Durrant

This book explores the ways in which postapartheid literature reinvents South African mourning traditions. During the apartheid era, politics exerted a particular pressure on both funerary practices and on literature, both of which were instrumentalised as weapons in the struggle: just as funerals were turned into mass political protests, literature was pressed into service as protest literature. In the postapartheid era, the Truth and Reconciliation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415996295
• ISBN13: 9780415996297
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages