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Passing Away

The Unspeakable (Losses) of Postapartheid South Africa
  • Yvette Christiansë
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© 2019 University of California Press, Berkeley

© 2019 University of California Press, Berkeley

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Illustrations vii
  4. Preface ix
  5. Introduction 1
  6. I. Bodily Remains
  7. Returning the Body without Haunting 29
  8. Black Mo’nin’ 59
  9. Ambiguities of Mourning 77
  10. Catastrophic Mourning 99
  11. Between Genocide and Catastrophe 125
  12. Passing Shadows 148
  13. Melancholia and Moralism 188
  14. II. Spatial Remains 203
  15. The Memory of Hunger 205
  16. Remains to Be Seen 229
  17. Mourning Becomes Kitsch 251
  18. Theorizing the Loss of Land 278
  19. Left Melancholy 300
  20. III. Ideal Remains
  21. All Things Shining 323
  22. A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia 343
  23. Passing Away 372
  24. Ways of Not Seeing 396
  25. Legacies of Trauma, Legacies of Activism 427
  26. Resisting Left Melancholia 458
  27. Afterword 467
  28. Contributors 475
  29. Name Index 479
https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520936270-019

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Illustrations vii
  4. Preface ix
  5. Introduction 1
  6. I. Bodily Remains
  7. Returning the Body without Haunting 29
  8. Black Mo’nin’ 59
  9. Ambiguities of Mourning 77
  10. Catastrophic Mourning 99
  11. Between Genocide and Catastrophe 125
  12. Passing Shadows 148
  13. Melancholia and Moralism 188
  14. II. Spatial Remains 203
  15. The Memory of Hunger 205
  16. Remains to Be Seen 229
  17. Mourning Becomes Kitsch 251
  18. Theorizing the Loss of Land 278
  19. Left Melancholy 300
  20. III. Ideal Remains
  21. All Things Shining 323
  22. A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia 343
  23. Passing Away 372
  24. Ways of Not Seeing 396
  25. Legacies of Trauma, Legacies of Activism 427
  26. Resisting Left Melancholia 458
  27. Afterword 467
  28. Contributors 475
  29. Name Index 479
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