Cover
Title page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
Tragedy Strikes
Beginnings
Unlearning Apartheid's Sophistry
Wounded Education
Theory and Theatre
Setting to Work
Thinking Ahead
2 Apartheid's Mythic Precursors
The Limits of Reason
Science Meets its Match
The Eclipse of Reason
Communication and Satire
Star-eyed Despair
Cybernetic Loops and Circular Causalities
3 The Return of Faust
Faustus on Safari
Back to the Future
Doubling the Wager
Enter the Devil
A Rat in the Kitchen
Uncanny Returns
The Wound
4 Woyzeck and the Secret Life of Apartheid's Things
Apartheid's Subjects
Theatres of Subjection
Büchner's Woyzeck
Displacements of Animate Objects
Neither Saint nor Sinner
Woyzeck in South Africa
5 Post-Apartheid Slapstick
Absurdism
Slapstick in Critical Theory
Violent Humour
Recoil
Spiralling Forward
6 The Double Futures of Post-Apartheid Freedom
Exit Apartheid
Cinematographic Memory
Partitioning Sense and Perception
Returning to Athlone
Stumbling in Athlone
Notes
Chapter 1: Introduction: Apartheid's Double-binds
Chapter 2: Apartheid's Mythic Precursors
Chapter 3: The Return of Faust: Rats, Hyenas and other Miscreants
Chapter 4: Woyzeck and the Secret Life of Apartheid's Things
Chapter 5: Post-Apartheid Slapstick
Chapter 6: The Double Futures of Post-Apartheid Freedom
Select Bibliography
Index
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