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SATANISM AND FAMILY MURDER IN LATE APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA
IMAGINING THE END OF WHITENESS |
| By: |
Nicky Falkof |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£72.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
113750305X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781137503053 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
5 July, 2015 |
| Description: |
This book discusses two moral panics that appeared in the media in late apartheid South Africa: the Satanism scare and the so-called epidemic of white family murder. The analysis of these symptoms of social and political change reveals important truths about whiteness, gender, violence, history, nationalism and injustice in South Africa and beyond. |
| Synopsis: |
In the last years of apartheid, white South African society found itself in the grip of previously unimaginable social and political change, which sometimes manifested in morbid cultural symptoms. This book considers two of those symptoms, a pair of matched moral panics that appeared in the contemporary media and in popular literature. It argues that excessive reactions to the apparent threat posed by a cult of white Satanists, never proven to exist, and to a so-called epidemic of white family murder reveal important truths about fear, violence and resistance, as well as fragmentations within the poles of white South African identity: nationalism, gender, history, the family, even whiteness itself. Together, the Satanism scare and the family murder 'epidemic' draw a compelling picture of the psychic landscape of white culture at the end of apartheid, revealing both pathological responses to social change and the brutalising effects that apartheid had on those who benefited from it most. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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