K. Sello Duiker and the Possibility of a Different Future in The Quiet Violence of Dreams
In this paper I argue that K. Sello Duiker's novel The Quiet Violence of Dreams (2001) invites readers to think differently about the future and its inherently unknown possibilities. It will argue that even though Lee Edelman has written in No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (2004)...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Pluto Journals
2019-05-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies |
| Online Access: | https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/intecritdivestud.2.1.0056 |
| Summary: | In this paper I argue that K. Sello Duiker's novel The Quiet Violence of Dreams (2001) invites readers to think differently about the future and its inherently unknown possibilities. It will argue that even though Lee Edelman has written in No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (2004) that futurity is fundamentally permeated with notions of heteronormativity, that the future can in fact still be understood outside this framework. It will make use of José Esteban Muñoz's understanding of futurity in Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (2009) to argue that queerness is that which has not yet happened. Duiker's novel is preoccupied with the question of the future and its possibilities within a post-apartheid setting. Even though its protagonist, Tshepo, has a deeply traumatic history, the events and the people that he comes across challenge his perception of himself as he begins to reimagine what it means to be human in a post-colonial setting. |
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| ISSN: | 2516-550X 2516-5518 |