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Stobie, C. 2012. “Dystopian dreams from South Africa: Lauren Beukes’…
Stobie, C. 2012. “Dystopian dreams from South Africa: Lauren Beukes’ Moxyland and Zoo City”
Introduction
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segregation, criminality, violence, oppression and
human rights violations which characterised the past and persists into the future
Utopia, dystopia, eutopia
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representations of dystopias, imaginary spaces in
literature which are clearly worse than contemporary society
dystopias
allow for some hope, or ‘social dreaming’ within the reader
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The national mood in post-apartheid South Africa, and dystopian cultural
production
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Hope, and the mood shifted to a post-apartheid mindset
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Zoo City
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Dystopian
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‘militant pessimism', ‘focused anger’ and ‘radical hope’
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historically significant South African city, Johannesburg, black gold miners
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aphorism encapsulates concepts of risk, money, crime, sexual
transgression and punishment
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‘Murderers, rapists, junkies. Scum of the earth
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‘Murderers, rapists, junkies. Scum of the earth
‘muti noir' novel
As a result of a serious crime, each of these individuals has been mystically bonded with an
animal
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5 features of a noir novel oneiric, strange, erotic,
ambivalent, and cruel
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Zoo City, the text’s nickname for Hillbrow
Sangoma, past, sins, muti, traditional Zulu culture
