Walder, Dennis
(2013).
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/10253866.2013.776306 |
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Abstract
Much of the remembering of recent years in South Africa has involved nostalgia, but a nostalgia of excess and morbidity, or what might be called hysteria. The endangered body stands as a memorial to the distortions of apartheid, and there are many manifestations in the culture of the country. Here I analyse two performative works by expatriate South Africans who in contrasting but related ways express through them a hysterical-nostalgic relation to their country’s past: Coming Home, a memory-play by Athol Fugard, and Neill Blomkamp’s dystopian film District 9, both of which touch on the country’s HIV/AIDS crisis. Resisting inadmissible yearnings for the apartheid past leads to revealing versions of nostalgia, in terms of broader cultural aesthetics, and the politics of the present – a time of continuing turbulence and uncertainty.
| Item Type: | Journal Item |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2013 Taylor & Francis |
| ISSN: | 1477-223X |
| Extra Information: | Special Issue: Nostalgia in the Twenty-First Century |
| Keywords: | hysteria; nostalgia; memory; performative; Freud; Athol Fugard; Coming Home; Neill Blomkamp; District 9; Johannesburg; rural versus urban; post-apartheid |
| Academic Unit/School: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > English & Creative Writing Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) |
| Research Group: | Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group (PGL) |
| Item ID: | 36989 |
| Depositing User: | Dennis Walder |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Mar 2013 10:52 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Aug 2019 08:44 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/36989 |
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