Post-Apartheid criticism : perceptions of whiteness, homosexuality, and democracy in South Africa

South Africa' s post-apartheid narrative is one of democracy and equality - but its flaws run deep, argues Ives S. Loukson. Disclosing prejudices about whiteness, homosexuality and democracy in the »staged society«, he claims the concept of relation as an adequate framework for the embodiment of »profane democracy« understood in Agambian terms. Its fluidity is equated to openness and transparency that are relevant dimensions for profane democracy. A demonstration of literary criticism practiced as a fecund interdisciplinary activity, Loukson's study lays the foundation for post-apartheid criticism different from post-colonial criticism.

South Africa's post-apartheid narrative is one of democracy and equality - but its flaws run deep, argues Ives S. Loukson. Disclosing prejudices about whiteness, homosexuality and democracy in the »staged society«, he claims the concept of relation as an adequate framework for the embodiment of »profane democracy« understood in Agambian terms. Its fluidity is equated to openness and transparency that are relevant dimensions for profane democracy. A demonstration of literary criticism practiced as a fecund interdisciplinary activity, Loukson's study lays the foundation for post-apartheid criticism different from post-colonial criticism.

Contents Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Abstract CHAPTER ONE: Introduction CHAPTER TWO: Form and Signification: Idiosyncrasy of South African Post-Apartheid Narrative CHAPTER THREE: South African post-apartheid Hegemony. Discourse as Negation of Relation and Social Representations CHAPTER FOUR: Extricating Democracy, Whiteness, and Homosexuality from Social Representations for the Embodiment of Relation in post-apartheid Narrative CHAPTER FIVE: Relation as aesthetics Intervention of Post-Apartheid Narrative for a truly and inclusive (profane) Democracy CHAPTER SIX: Conclusion. Toward Post-Apartheid Criticism Works Cited