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Undoing apartheid
- Author / Creator
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Details
- Creator
- Premesh Lalu
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Newark, New Jersey : Polity Press, 2023
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- ISBNs
- 1509552820, 9781509552825, 9781509552832, 1509552839, 1509555951, 9781509555956
- OCLC
- on1350418567, on1349452920
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Tragedy Strikes -- Beginnings -- Unlearning Apartheid's Sophistry -- Wounded Education -- Theory and Theatre -- Setting to Work -- Thinking Ahead -- 2 Apartheid's Mythic Precursors -- The Limits of Reason -- Science Meets its Match -- The Eclipse of Reason -- Communication and Satire -- Star-eyed Despair -- Cybernetic Loops and Circular Causalities -- 3 The Return of Faust -- Faustus on Safari -- Back to the Future -- Doubling the Wager -- Enter the Devil -- A Rat in the Kitchen -- Uncanny Returns -- The Wound -- 4 Woyzeck and the Secret Life of Apartheid's Things -- Apartheid's Subjects -- Theatres of Subjection -- Büchner's Woyzeck -- Displacements of Animate Objects -- Neither Saint nor Sinner -- Woyzeck in South Africa -- 5 Post-Apartheid Slapstick -- Absurdism -- Slapstick in Critical Theory -- Violent Humour -- Recoil -- Spiralling Forward -- 6 The Double Futures of Post-Apartheid Freedom -- Exit Apartheid -- Cinematographic Memory -- Partitioning Sense and Perception -- Returning to Athlone -- Stumbling in Athlone -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Apartheid's Double-binds -- Chapter 2: Apartheid's Mythic Precursors -- Chapter 3: The Return of Faust: Rats, Hyenas and other Miscreants -- Chapter 4: Woyzeck and the Secret Life of Apartheid's Things -- Chapter 5: Post-Apartheid Slapstick -- Chapter 6: The Double Futures of Post-Apartheid Freedom -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Supplemental Images -- EULA