Post-Apartheid Criticism: Perceptions of Whiteness, Homosexuality, and Democracy in South Africa

Ives S. Loukson

Published by transcript Verlag 2020

Post-Apartheid Criticism

Perceptions of Whiteness, Homosexuality, and Democracy in South Africa

Ives S. Loukson

In the series Lettre

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839449196

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South Africa's post-apartheid narrative is one of democracy and equality - but its flaws run deep, argues Ives S. Loukson. Disclosing prejudices about whiteness, homosexuality and democracy in the »staged society«, he claims the concept of relation as an adequate framework for the embodiment of »profane democracy« understood in Agambian terms. Its fluidity is equated to openness and transparency that are relevant dimensions for profane democracy. A demonstration of literary criticism practiced as a fecund interdisciplinary activity, Loukson's study lays the foundation for post-apartheid criticism different from post-colonial criticism.

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Ives S. Loukson (PhD) was born in 1981. He holds degrees from the Universities of Yaoundé 1/Cameroon and Bayreuth/Germany. His research interests include cultural studies, post-colonial studies, Francophone and Anglophone literary studies, creative writing, and German as foreign language.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
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CHAPTER ONE: Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
CHAPTER TWO: Form and Signification: Idiosyncrasy of South African Post-Apartheid Narrative Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
CHAPTER THREE: South African post-apartheid Hegemony. Discourse as Negation of Relation and Social Representations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
CHAPTER FOUR: Extricating Democracy, Whiteness, and Homosexuality from Social Representations for the Embodiment of Relation in post-apartheid Narrative Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
CHAPTER FIVE: Relation as aesthetics Intervention of Post-Apartheid Narrative for a truly and inclusive (profane) Democracy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
CHAPTER SIX: Conclusion. Toward Post-Apartheid Criticism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 282
Keywords: Democracy; Homosexuality; Hegemony; Post-Apartheid Narrative; Perceptions; Literature; Racism; Gender; General Literature Studies; British Studies; Postcolonialism; Queer Theory; Literary Studies

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Published: October 27, 2020
ISBN: 9783839449196