Autore
Kroll, Catherine

Titolo
Bodies of Evidence: South African Gothic and the Terror of the "Twice-Told Tale"
Periodico
Textus
Anno: 2012 - Volume: 25 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 89 - Pagina finale: 102

In its figuration of white bodies as horrifically deficient, South AfricanGothic deconstructs apartheid's white supremacist assumption ofcomprehensive power and legitimate authority. Apartheid's toxicfixation on 'difference' and its disavowal of solidarity across communitiesproduce a repressed kinship between whites and non-whites, whichNadime Gordimer, Alex La Guma and Marlene Van Niekerk renderin tropes of topographical separation and the discursive fetishisationof race. In works that represent the anti-apartheid struggle as aforeordained "twice-told tale", these authors exhibit the many ways inwhich apparently discrete nationalist narratives interconnect, shapingboth those in power and also those subjected by them. In disclosingwhite South African histories as spectral, these authors extend thefrontiers of Gothic structure and its conventional tropes. Theirs is aGothic as expansive as apartheid itself: revealing the widening of terroras it moved from law, to land, to body.



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