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Brothers from another mother: Seeing the uncanny in US popular media depictions of South Africa

Content Provider	SAGE Publishing
Author	Rachel Lara van der Merwe
Copyright Year	2022
Abstract	This article examines a pattern of popular US audiovisual media depictions of post-apartheid South Africa, which portray SA as harbouring latent danger. I use these depictions as an entry point into a broader web of articulation that connects various theoretical lenses (including Othering and theories of fear), empirical data, and historical context in order to tell a conjunctural story about the precarity of US exceptionalism and Whiteness. Rather than reading these depictions as a suggestion that SA is a tangible threat of danger to the world, I argue that the strategic formation of these depictions reveals how the US experiences the uncanny (familiar unfamiliar) in SA, another significantly White settler-colonial state, and thus perceives a discursive threat of SA democracy to US exceptionalism on the global stage. This conjuncture, I suggest, reveals a discursive struggle over multicultural global futures and who gets to define democracy in the popular imagination.
Related Links	https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/13678779221090986?download=true
Starting Page	589
Ending Page	605
Page Count	17
ISSN	13678779
Issue Number	5
Volume Number	25
Journal	International Journal of Cultural Studies (ICS)
e-ISSN	1460356X
DOI	10.1177/13678779221090986
Language	English
Publisher	Sage Publications UK
Publisher Date	2022-05-29
Publisher Place	London
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	© The Author(s) 2022
Subject Keyword	the uncanny settler colonialism post-apartheid South Africa the postcolonial uncanny Whiteness Othering US exceptionalism
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Cultural Studies

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