Cultured Violence Narrative, Social Suffering, and Engendering Human Rights in Contemporary South Africa

by Jolly, Rosemary

• ISBN13: 9781846312137
• ISBN10: 1846312132
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-07-22
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

Cultured Violenceexplores 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 kindsthe 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 themin 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.

Author Biography

Rosemary Jolly holds appointments in the Department of English, Southern African Research Centre, and the Institute for Population and Public Health at Queen’s University, Canada. Her previous books include Colonization, Violence and Narration in White South African Writing: Breyten Breytenbach, André Brink and J. M Coetzee.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction: Testifying in and to Cultures of Spectacular Violence	p. 1
'Going to the Dogs': 'Humanity' in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace, The Lives of Animals and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission	p. 37
The State of/and Childhood: Engendering Adolescence in Contemporary South Africa	p. 53
Spectral Presences: Women, Stigma, and the Performance of Alienation	p. 82
Men 'Not Feeling Good': The Dilemmas of Hyper-masculinity in the Era of HIV/AIDS	p. 117
Conclusion: Constituting Dishonour	p. 157
Bibliography	p. 167
Index	p. 177
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