After Apartheid: Violence, Spatial Boundaries, and theReconciliation Process in Three Post-Apartheid South African Novels 公开

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Abstract After Apartheid: Violence, Spatial Boundaries, and the Reconciliation Process in Three Post-Apartheid South African Novels by Erin Crews

Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, and Achmat Dangor - three of South Africa's most distinguished writers - all with definite anti-apartheid commitment - have written major novels set completely in post-apartheid South Africa: Gordimer's The House Gun (1998), Coetzee's Disgrace (1999), and Dangor's Bitter Fruit (2001). Each novel, in its preoccupation with violence and varying notions of the expiation of guilt, justice, reconciliation and the implications of the transfer of power for both blacks and whites, injects itself into the ongoing dialogue on the transformation process in the new South Africa. While there has been a deep anxiety to acknowledge the culture of violence in post-apartheid South Africa as part of the enduring legacy of apartheid, this struggle to come to terms with the nation's past has produced no consensus about the appropriate ethical response to the historical guilt of apartheid.

Fittingly, these novels offer fragmentary explorations of the limitations of the possibilities for justice during the time of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which reveal the inability to assume consensual knowledge and highlight the criticisms of and ambivalence toward the TRC among nearly all segments of South African society. Through complex representations of violence, landscape and space, and scenes of interrogation, each novel's portrayal of personal and collective trauma disrupts the rhetoric and appearance of reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa and attempts to foreground the enduring ramifications of apartheid.

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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION………………………………......…………………………...........………1

Chapter 1. NARRATIVE STRATEGY IN THE HOUSE GUN, DISGRACE, AND

BITTER FRUIT.……………………………………………………..……….....................9 2. REPRESENTATIONS OF RAPE, VIOLENCE, AND SPATIAL BOUNDARIES IN THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA.……………..……...........……35 3. WRITING SOUTH AFRICA IN THE TIME OF THE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION ………………………………...............……..76

CONCLUSION.…………….………………………………………….........……………...109 NOTES…………………………………………………..……………………..............…….113 WORKS CITED....……………………………………………………….........……………118

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School	Laney Graduate School
Department	English
Degree	MA
Submission	Dissertation
Language	English
Research Field	Literature, African Literature, Modern Literature, English
关键词	J.M. Coetzee south african literature post-apartheid Nadine Gordimer space race postcolonial rape Achmat Dangor
Committee Chair / Thesis Advisor	Petraglia-Bahri, Deepika, Emory University
Committee Members	Ladd, Barbara, Emory University Scully, Pamela F, Emory University

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