Reading Affect in Post-Apartheid Literature: South Africa's Wounded Feelings

by Mark Libin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030559769
• ISBN13: 9783030559762
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"