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

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 fundamenta

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Reading Affect in Post-Apartheid Literature: South Africa’s Wounded Feelings Mark Libin

Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism

Series Editors Adam Frank University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada Joel Faflak Western University London, ON, Canada

The recent surge of interest in affect and emotion has productively crossed disciplinary boundaries within and between the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, but has not often addressed questions of literature and literary criticism as such. The first of its kind, Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism seeks theoretically informed scholarship that examines the foundations and practice of literary criticism in relation to affect theory. This series aims to stage contemporary debates in the field, addressing topics such as: the role of affective experience in literary composition and reception, particularly in non-Western literatures; examinations of historical and conceptual relations between major and minor philosophies of emotion and literary experience; and studies of race, class, gender, sexuality, age, and disability that use affect theory as a primary critical tool. Editorial Board Members Louis Charland (Western University) – History and Philosophy of Affective Terms Patrick Colm Hogan (University of Connecticut, Storrs) – Cognitive and Affective Science of World Literature Holly Crocker (University of South Carolina) – Medieval Literature and Affect Theory David James (University of Birmingham, UK) –Modernism, the Contemporary Novel, and Affect Theory Julia Lupton (University of California, Irvine) – Renaissance and Theatre Kate Singer (Mount Holyoke College) – Affect and Romanticism Jane Thrailkill (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) – Affect and American Realism Donald Wehrs (Auburn University)

More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14653

Mark Libin

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

Mark Libin Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism ISBN 978-3-030-55976-2 ISBN 978-3-030-55977-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55977-9 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore