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

Title: Post-Apartheid Criticism
Subtitle: Perceptions of Whiteness, Homosexuality, and Democracy in South Africa
Author: Ives S. Loukson
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Bielefeld, Germany 2020
ISBN 9783837649192 / ISBN 978-3-8376-4919-2
Softcover, 16 x 24 cm, 282 pages

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

This study seeks to examine the contribution of post-apartheid narrative to the building of an effectively democratic and multicultural South Africa. The study develops from the central hypothesis that post-apartheid narrative appears to be an adequate site for archetypal features enlightening about the adjustments of hegemony and its expressions in post-apartheid South Africa. Concretely, the book attempts to show how true (profane) democracy is flawed by perceptions of whiteness, homosexuality and democracy. The study contends that democracy seen from its profane perspective (Agamben, 2007), continuously improves living conditions of each and all in society. This is the case in respect to four selected South African post-apartheid narratives.

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

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Abstract
CHAPTER ONE: Introduction
I-1- Operationalization of key concepts
I-1-1- Democracy
I-1-2- Whiteness
I-1-3- Homosexuality
I-1-4- Relation
I-2- Literature review
I-2-1- On South African literature
I-2-2- On the narratives selected
I-2-3- On key concepts of the topic
I-3- Research hypothesis and research questions
I-4- Theory and methodology
I-5- Structure of the work
CHAPTER TWO: Form and Signification: Idiosyncrasy of South African Post-Apartheid Narrative
II-I- Character: an incursion into the idiosyncrasy of South African post-apartheid narrative Distribution of the characters in post-apartheid narrative
II-1-2- Interior life prompting characters to performance
II-2- Spatialization in post-apartheid narrative as a deconstruction of post-apartheid South Africa
II-2-1- Fictional post-apartheid South Africa as a transposition of modern (democratic) South Africa
II-2-2- Johannesburg in post-apartheid narrative: a cue toward Relation?
II-3- From fictional to autobiographic narrative
II-3-1- Memoirs of a Born Free as a tangible attempt to embody "Project Infinity"
II-3-2- Perceptions of whiteness (white race), homosexuality and democracy as obstacle to Relation
CHAPTER THREE: South African post-apartheid Hegemony Discourse as Negation of Relation and Social Representations
III-1-1- Discourse and Relation: theoretical and historical springs of South African post-apartheid hegemony Discourse
III-1-2- Relation as diffuser of hegemony
III-2- Roots of the portrayed post-apartheid hegemony
III-2-1- Portrayed post-apartheid South Africa as embodiment of discourse
III-2-2- Symbolic resources of Johannesburg and embodiment of discourse in portrayed post-apartheid South Africa
III-2-3- Obstacles to the embodiment of Relation: authenticity, transparency, racism in reverse
III-3- How do social representations relate to discourse and Relation?
III-3-1- Manifestations of social representations through ideology and common sense
III-3-2- Social representations and the fictional narrative
CHAPTER FOUR: Extricating Democracy, Whiteness, and Homosexuality from Social Representations for the Embodiment of Relation in post-apartheid Narrative
IV-1- Post-apartheid hegemony as shaped by the perceptions of homosexuality in The Quiet Violence of Dreams
IV-1-1- Social exclusion
IV-1-2- Social antagonism
IV-2- Post-apartheid hegemony as shaped by the perceptions of whiteness in Coconut
IV-2-1- Multiplication of misunderstandings in the portrayed post-apartheid society
IV-2-2- Whiteness desired by the victim
IV-3- Post-apartheid hegemony as shaped by the perceptions of democracy in Dog Eat Dog and Memoirs of a Born Free
IV-3- 1- Perpetual state of euphoria in substitution of a truly and inclusive democracy
IV-3- 2- Perceptions of democracy and legitimation of fundamentalisms and hegemony
CHAPTER FIVE: Relation as aesthetics Intervention of Post-Apartheid Narrative for a truly and inclusive (profane) Democracy
V-1- Figures of Relation in the post-apartheid narrative
V-1-1- Polyphony of the post-apartheid narrative "surface"
V-1-2- Multi-perspectivity of the post-apartheid narrative as a metaphor of a profane and inclusive democracy
V-1-3- Hybridity/fluidity of the character and space
V-2- Stakes of Relation in post-apartheid narrative
V-2-1- Alleviation of rigid barriers curbing mutual improvement
V-2-2- Enforcement of autonomy and culture of "perpetual peace"
V-3- Challenges of Relation for post-apartheid South Africa to come
V-3-1- Resistance from conservative logics
V-3-2- Utopian and chaotic nature of Relation
CHAPTER SIX: Conclusion Toward Post-Apartheid Criticism
Works Cited
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
A / Narratives, Plays and Poetry
B / Works on South Africa and South African Literature
C / Works on Literary Theory
D / Theoretical works
E / Articles
F / Dissertations Consulted
G / Internet Sources