Titlebook: Reading Affect in Post-Apartheid Literature; South Africa‘s Wound Mark Libin Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020

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Domestic Bliss,tations. Libin offers close readings of two novels focusing on domestic servants in South Africa—Méira Cook’s . and Nadine Gordimer’s .—to explore the fraught affective dynamic between the white liberal and the embittered black servant.

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Book 2020“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 Co

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,Introduction: Reading Feeling/Apartheid’s Bitter Fruit,olitical and social divisions created during the apartheid era (1948–1994), and that this transformation may be productively measured and evaluated through the lens of affect theory. Libin contextualizes his theoretical approach, distinguishing between two main streams of affect theory, and arguing

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Domestic Bliss,f the TRC hearings, creates an event that simulates close proximity between the individual testifying and the spectator witnessing. This event is predicated on the notion that closer proximity offers more opportunities for genuine empathy. Elaborating on the notion of the mainstream book club reader

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Seeing and Time: Durational Time in , and ,of which are concerned with the?TRC amnesty hearings. Arguing that the performative nature of both texts allows him to consider time as an affective structure, Libin utilizes Lawrence L. Langer’s concept of the “durational time” of trauma to analyse the play and documentary. Libin contends that wher

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,Compassion Fatigue: White Empathy and White Guilt in Antjie Krog’s , and J.M. Coetzee’s ,alue of compassion for white liberal South Africans. ., a multi-generic memoir of an Afrikaner journalist covering the TRC hearings, is a text saturated with guilt and empathy. Krog details the traumatic symptoms as a result of her empathetic connection with the victims of apartheid as well as her i

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,Conclusion: How Close Is Too Close? Anger, Reconciliation and the “Born Free” Generation,o Lauren Berlant’s ., Libin sums up the study as a whole by suggesting that affect represents the jarring impact of intimacy and its unpredictable and often shocking embodiments. Affect, he contends, is the eruption of autonomous identity when confronted with a trauma that threatens to subsume ident

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