Cultured Violence
Narrative, Social Suffering and Engendering Human Rights in Contemporary South Africa
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
184 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2010
Cultured Violence explores contemporary South African culture as a test case for the achievement of democracy by constitutional means in the wake of prolonged and violent cultural conflict. Drawing on and juxtaposing narratives of profoundly different kinds, including the fiction of J. M. Coetzee, public testimony from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, documents from former Deputy President Jacob Zuma’s rape trial, and personal interviews, Rosemary Jolly illuminates different cultural ideas of the “state of the nation” and uncovers otherwise elusive understandings of South African subjects.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Testifying in and to Cultures of Spectacular Violence
1 'Going to the Dogs': 'Humanity' in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace, The Lives of Animals
and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
2 The State of/and Childhood: Engendering Adolescence in Contemporary South Africa
3 Spectral Presences: Women, Stigma, and the Performance of Alienation
4 Men 'Not Feeling Good': The Dilemmas of Hyper-masculinity in the Era of HIV/AIDS
Conclusion: Constituting Dishonour
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: Testifying in and to Cultures of Spectacular Violence
1 'Going to the Dogs': 'Humanity' in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace, The Lives of Animals
and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
2 The State of/and Childhood: Engendering Adolescence in Contemporary South Africa
3 Spectral Presences: Women, Stigma, and the Performance of Alienation
4 Men 'Not Feeling Good': The Dilemmas of Hyper-masculinity in the Era of HIV/AIDS
Conclusion: Constituting Dishonour
Bibliography
Index
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