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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Abstract -- CHAPTER ONE: Introduction -- I-1- Operationalization of key concepts -- I-1-1- Democracy -- I-1-2- Whiteness -- I-1-3- Homosexuality -- I-1-4- Relation -- I-2- Literature review -- I-2-1- On South African literature -- I-2-2- On the narratives selected -- I-2-3- On key concepts of the topic -- I-3- Research hypothesis and research questions -- I-4- Theory and methodology -- I-5- Structure of the work -- CHAPTER TWO: Form and Signification: Idiosyncrasy of South African Post-Apartheid Narrative II-I- Character: an incursion into the idiosyncrasy of South African post-apartheid narrative -- II-1-1- Distribution of the characters in post-apartheid narrative -- II-1-2- Interior life prompting characters to performance -- II-2- Spatialization in post-apartheid narrative as a deconstruction of post-apartheid South Africa -- II-2-1- Fictional post-apartheid South Africa as a transposition of modern (democratic) South Africa -- II-2-2- Johannesburg in post-apartheid narrative: a cue toward Relation? -- II-3- From fictional to autobiographic narrative II-3-1- Memoirs of a Born Free as a tangible attempt to embody "Project Infinity" -- II-3-2- Perceptions of whiteness (white race), homosexuality and democracy as obstacle to Relation -- CHAPTER THREE: South African post-apartheid Hegemony. Discourse as Negation of Relation and Social Representations -- III-1- Discourse and Relation: theoretical and historical springs of South African post-apartheid hegemony -- III-1-1- Discourse -- III-1-2- Relation as diffuser of hegemony -- III-2- Roots of the portrayed post-apartheid hegemony III-2-1- Portrayed post-apartheid South Africa as embodiment of discourse -- III-2-2- Symbolic resources of Johannesburg and embodiment of discourse in portrayed post-apartheid South Africa -- III-2-3- Obstacles to the embodiment of Relation: authenticity, transparency, racism in reverse -- III-3- How do social representations relate to discourse and Relation? -- III-3-1- Manifestations of social representations through ideology and common sense -- III-3-2- Social representations and the fictional narrative CHAPTER FOUR: Extricating Democracy, Whiteness, and Homosexuality from Social Representations for the Embodiment of Relation in post-apartheid Narrative -- IV-1- Post-apartheid hegemony as shaped by the perceptions of homosexuality in The Quiet Violence of Dreams -- IV-1-1- Social exclusion -- IV-1-2- Social antagonism -- IV-2- Post-apartheid hegemony as shaped by the perceptions of whiteness in Coconut -- IV-2-1- Multiplication of misunderstandings in the portrayed post-apartheid society -- IV-2-2- Whiteness desired by the victim South Africa' s post-apartheid narrative is one of democracy and equality - but its flaws run deep, argues Ives S. Loukson. Disclosing prejudices about whiteness, homosexuality and democracy in the "staged society", he claims the concept of relation as an adequate framework for the embodiment of "profane democracy" understood in Agambian terms. Its fluidity is equated to openness and transparency that are relevant dimensions for profane democracy. A demonstration of literary criticism practiced as a fecund interdisciplinary activity, Loukson's study lays the foundation for post-apartheid criticism different from post-colonial criticism
