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This book focuses on six post-apartheid novels, namely Zo¨e Wicomb's ''Playing in the Light'' (2006), Marlene van Niekerk's ''Agaat'' (2004/2007), André Brink's ''Devil's Valley'' (1998), Sarah Penny's ''The Beneficiaries'' (2002), K Sello Duiker's ''Thirteen Cents'' (2000), and Kgebetli Moele's ''Room 207'' (2006). It aims at highlighting different manifestations of melancholia that are visible in these texts in particular and in post-apartheid writing more generally. Mainly based on Sigmund Freud's, Anne Cheng's, and Paul Gilroy's concepts of melancholia, most novels are regarded as melancholic counter-narratives to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission's attempt to initiate a nationwide process of mourning with the aim of subsequent closure of the apartheid past. Moreover, concepts of melancholia prove particularly useful in order to analyse issues such as complicity, uncritical whiteness, crises of identity, forms of resistance, and intergenerational memory.

Melancholy in literature --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature --- South African fiction. --- Südafrika --- Postapartheid Literatur --- Postkoloniale Literatur --- Truth and Reconciliation Commission --- Melancholie --- South Africa --- In literature.

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The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial future. With this promise came an injunction: define yourself as you truly are, as an individual, and as a community. Almost two decades later it is clear that it was less the prospect of that future than the habits and horizons of anxious life in racially defined enclaves that determined postapartheid freedom. In this book, Thomas Blom Hansen offers an in-depth analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, and anxieties that have accompanied postapartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in Durban. Exploring five decades of township life, Hansen tells the stories of ordinary Indians whose lives were racialized and framed by the township, and how these residents domesticated and inhabited this urban space and its institutions, during apartheid and after. Hansen demonstrates the complex and ambivalent nature of ordinary township life. While the ideology of apartheid was widely rejected, its practical institutions, from urban planning to houses, schools, and religious spaces, were embraced in order to remake the community. Hansen describes how the racial segmentation of South African society still informs daily life, notions of race, personhood, morality, and religious ethics. He also demonstrates the force of global religious imaginings that promise a universal and inclusive community amid uncertain lives and futures in the postapartheid nation-state.

East Indians --- Asian Indians --- Indians, East --- Indians (India) --- Indic peoples --- Ethnology --- Durban (South Africa) --- Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa) --- Chatsworth, South Africa --- Chatsworth Indian Township (Durban, South Africa) --- Durban, Natal --- eThekwini (South Africa) --- Religion. --- Social conditions. --- Race relations. --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Africans. --- Asiatic question. --- Bollywood films. --- Chatsworth. --- Durban. --- Hinduism. --- Indian life. --- Indian middle class. --- Indian township. --- Indian townships. --- Indian. --- Indians. --- Jacob Zuma. --- Muslims. --- Natal. --- Pentecostal Christianity. --- South Africa. --- South African Indians. --- South Africans. --- ambition. --- apartheid regulation. --- apartheid. --- autonomy. --- charou. --- church communities. --- colonialism. --- coolie. --- cultural economy. --- cultural intimacy. --- cultural mobility. --- culturally alien people. --- cynicism. --- diasporic imagination. --- disengagement. --- ethnoracial definition. --- kombi taxi. --- majoritarianism. --- minorities. --- neo-Hindu movements. --- non-African communities. --- policy makers. --- politics. --- postapartheid city. --- postapartheid freedom. --- postapartheid society. --- postapartheid. --- private taxi industry. --- public culture. --- race lines. --- racial practices. --- racial segregation. --- racialized identities. --- racism. --- religious identity. --- religious purification. --- representative politics. --- roots tourism. --- social activists. --- social mobility. --- spiritual purification. --- township politics. --- traditional conservatism. --- urban landscape. --- urban music. --- working-class Indians. --- youth culture.

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Albie Sachs gives an intimate account of his extraordinary life and work as a judge in South Africa. Mixing autobiography with reflections on his major cases and the role of law in achieving social justice, Sachs offers a rare glimpse into the workings of the judicial mind and a unique perspective on modern South African history.

Law --- United States --- Judges --- Lawyers --- Anti-apartheid movements. --- Post-apartheid era. --- Sachs, Albie, --- Anti-apartheid movements --- Post-apartheid era --- Postapartheid era --- Apartheid --- Alcaldes --- Cadis --- Chief justices --- Chief magistrates --- Justices --- Magistrates --- Courts --- Civil rights movements --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Officials and employees --- Sachs, Albert Louis,

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This stirring collection of essays and talks by activist and former judge Albie Sachs is the culmination of more than 25 years of thought about constitution-making and non-racialism. Following the Constitutional Court's landmark Nkandla ruling in March 2016, it serves as a powerful reminder of the tenets of the Constitution, the rule of law and the continuous struggle to uphold democratic rights and freedoms. We, the People offers an intimate insider's view of South Africa's Constitution by a writer who has been deeply entrenched in its historical journey from the depths of apartheid right up to the politically contested present. As a second-year law student at the University of Cape Town, Sachs took part in the Defiance Campaign and went on to attend the Congress of the People in Kliptown, where the Freedom Charter was adopted in 1955. Three decades later, shortly after the bomb attack in Maputo that cost him his arm and the sight in one eye, he was called on by the Constitutional Committee of the African National Congress to co-draft (with Kader Asmal) the first outline of a Bill of Rights for a new democratic South Africa. In 1994, he was appointed by Nelson Mandela to the Constitutional Court, where he served as a judge until 2009. We, the People contains some of Sachs' most memorable public talks and writings, in which he takes us back to the broad-based popular foundations of the Constitution in the Freedom Charter. He picks up on Oliver Tambo's original vision of a non-racial future for South Africa, rather than one based on institutionalised power-sharing between the races. He explores the tension between perfectability and corruptibility, hope and mistrust, which lies at the centre of all constitutions. Sachs discusses the enforcement of social and economic rights, and contemplates the building of the Constitutional Court in the heart of the Old Fort Prison as a mechanism for reconciling the past and the future. Subjective experience and objective analysis interact powerfully in a personalised narrative that reasserts the value of constitutionality not just for South Africans, but for people striving to advance human dignity, equality and freedom across the world today.

Judges --- Lawyers --- Law --- Post-apartheid era. --- Anti-apartheid activists --- Civil rights workers --- Postapartheid era --- Apartheid --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation --- Alcaldes --- Cadis --- Chief justices --- Chief magistrates --- Justices --- Magistrates --- Courts --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Officials and employees --- Sachs, Albie, --- Sachs, Albert Louis, --- South Africa --- Politics and government.

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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 fundamentally an affective, emotional project. Through the TRC hearings, which publicly broadcast the testimonies of both victims and perpetrators of gross human rights violations, the African National Congress government of South Africa, represented by Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, endeavoured to generate powerful emotions of contrition and sympathy in order to build an empathetic bond between white and black citizens, a bond referred to frequently by Tutu in terms of the African philosophy of interconnection: ubuntu. This book explores the representations of affect, and the challenges of generating ubuntu, through close readings of a variety of cultural products: novels, poetry, memoir, drama, documentary film and audio anthology.

Literature—Philosophy. --- African literature. --- Literature. --- Philosophy. --- Postcolonialism. --- Critical criminology. --- Literary Theory. --- African Literature. --- Literature, general. --- Postcolonial Philosophy. --- Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime. --- Radical criminology --- Criminology --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Black literature (African) --- Authors, African --- South African literature (English) --- South African literature --- Affect (Psychology) in literature. --- Post-apartheid era. --- English literature --- Postapartheid era --- Apartheid --- History and criticism. --- Literature --- Critical Criminology. --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Theory