Skin Tight : : Apartheid Literary Culture and Its Aftermath / / Louise Bethlehem.

• Superior document: Imagined South Africa Series ; Volume 12
• VerfasserIn: Bethlehem, Louise,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Unisa Press,, [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Imagined South Africa ; Volume 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (163 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE THE RHETORIC OF URGENCY -- The Trope-of-Truth -- The Trope as Truth -- Wrenching the Spiked Cactus with Bare Hands -- Loitering Without Intent -- A Political Economy of Forms -- The Rites of Desire -- TWO THE DRIFT TO THE MAP -- Matter/Mettre en Abîme -- Writes of Passage -- The Lie of the Literary Land -- The Bard and the Barbed Wire -- Ethnic-Talk -- Dispositions of Exchange -- THREE ADAMASTOR, OR THE EXORBITANT TRUTH OF THE FETISH -- At the Rock Face -- Paper Ghosts -- The Hard Core of the Myth -- Manhandling -- A Question for Freud -- Theoretical Stiffening -- Billets-Doux -- FOUR ABOUT FACE: THE SURFACE POLITICS OF THE FEMALE BODY -- Like Excluding History Itself -- Loose Women -- Urbana, Casta, Eloquens -- Not Getting the Story Straight, or a Baroque and Grotesque Monologue -- No Laughing Matter -- Epitaph: Her Slight Ghost -- Appendix -- FIVE AFTERMATH, OR THE SURVIE OF THE APARTHEID BODY -- Conjuration -- Window Cases -- Over Our Dead Bodies -- Mimetic Abandon -- Reprise -- Postscript: The (Re)mise-en-Scène -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.