ABSTRACT

This roundtable is curation of broad-ranging and multidisciplinary reflections on the continuing relevance of Zulu Love Letter, fifteen years after its release. The connecting strand in all the reflections is how the film invites us to ponder on the enduring legacies and the disturbing specters of apartheid, especially in these tumultuous times characterized by all sorts of political, economic, gender, xenophobic and ableist violence. The recurring concern in all the contributions is how to make sense of these specters of apartheid that linger in the post-apartheid landscape. While some of the reflections in the roundtable show how Zulu Love Letter forces us to rethink our assumptions about reconciliation in South Africa, others point to the recalcitrant presence of the past inscribed on individual bodies and in rebellious mournings. Some reflections also touch on the cinematic qualities of the film in order to locate it within the genre of counter cinema, especially on account of its remarkable tendency to disrupt linearity. The copious use of flashbacks – or interludes – in the film helps to foreground the argument about haunting in post-apartheid South Africa. In all, we reflect on the making, reception, public life as well as the revived intellectual interest in the film. We note how, since the calls for fees must fall and decolonization, the film appears to be interpolated in inter-generational reassessments of the gains and losses of the post-apartheid period in South Africa.

摘要

这次圆桌会议是对祖鲁情书发行15年后的持续相关性的广泛和多学科思考的策展。在所有反射中，连接的环节是电影如何邀请我们思考种族隔离制度的持久遗产和令人不安的幽灵，尤其是在这些动荡时期，其特征是各种政治，经济，性别，仇外心理和能力暴力。所有贡献中经常出现的问题是如何理解在种族隔离后的环境中徘徊的种族隔离的幽灵。圆桌会议上的一些反思表明祖鲁情书是如何迫使我们重新考虑我们对南非和解的假设，其他人则指出，刻在个体身上和叛逆哀悼中的顽固存在。一些反射也触及了电影的电影品质，以便将其定位在对等电影类型中，特别是考虑到其破坏线性的显着趋势。电影中大量使用倒叙（或间断），有助于凸显关于种族隔离后的南非困扰的论点。总之，我们对电影的制作，接待，公共生活以及恢复的知识兴趣进行了反思。我们注意到，由于必须降低收费和非殖民化的要求，这部电影似乎被插进了对南非种族隔离时代后的得失的代际重新评估中。