Gillian Slovo'sRed dust(2000)
| Autor: | Dorothy Driver |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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| Zdroj: | Scrutiny2. 12:107-122 |
| ISSN: | 1753-5409 1812-5441 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/18125440701752024 |
| Popis: | Gillian Slovo's novel Red dust reads for the most part as a formulaic novel combining for its representation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission elements of courtroom drama and detective fiction. It offers a now standard sardonic view of the central tenets of the TRC, ironically addressing the reversals of power of post-apartheid South Africa, and posing useful if not surprising questions about the relations between gender and change in the ‘new South Africa’. In depicting an amnesty hearing's staging of a power struggle between a notorious apartheid torturer and his one-time victim, the novel renders the intimacies of oppression in gendered terms, and redirects our attention to a patriarchal structure that outlasts apartheid, laying bare the continuing gender conventions of new nation building. However, through a black male character's redefinitions of self, the novel projects a new version of black masculinity for the post-apartheid nation. This is given particular force by virtue of its... |
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