Cultured Violence
Narrative, Social Suffering and Engendering Human Rights in Contemporary South Africa
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
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—the fiction of J. M. Coetzee, public testimony form the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, documents from former Deputy President Jacob Zuma’s rape trial, and personal interviews among them—in order to illuminate different cultural senses of the “state of the nation” and retrieve otherwise elusive descriptions of South African subjects taken from accounts of their individual lives.
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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