Embracing Rainbowism? Representations of Interracial Relationships in Three South African Novels
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Shih, Alice
Abstract
This study explores the evolution of racism in South Africa by analysing representations of interracial relationships depicted in the novels of the following South African authors: André Brink’s An Instant in the Wind (1976) set in the colonial period, J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999) set in the transitional era of post-antiapartheid, and Damon Galgut’s The Impostor (2008) representing the current post-antiapartheid twenty-first century. I focus on the historical, socio-political, and economic aspects of South Africa to analyse how racism has developed over the years. I use Louise Vincent and Simon Howell’s identification of three popular incantations (“I’m not a racist but…,” “I’m over it,” and “it’s not race it’s…”), which define South Africa’s contemporary views on racism, in their discussion of a controversial poster designed by DASO (2012) representing a black-white couple. I bridge the gap between the conventional view of deep-seated racism and the diversified contemporary view by exploring how the race issue has transformed from radical racism, under the colonial and apartheid period, to the emerging of non-racialism during the transitional period, and then finally to a re-racialization in the post-antiapartheid state.
Subjects
South Africa
racism
Andre Brink
J. M Coetzee
Damon Galgut
DASO poster
Rainbow Nation
non-racialism
Type
thesis
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