ABSTRACT

Niq Mhlongo’s use of scatology in Dog Eat Dog foregrounds his exploration of the temporal affects of disillusionment and disappointment. Drawing together critical and theoretical writing on affect, scatology, the postcolony, and abjection, this article contends that corporeality is symbolically and politically significant in the postapartheid imaginary. This significance is evident throughout Dog Eat Dog, especially in two episodes set in university toilets, which explore through corporeal imagery the topics of racial abjection, vulnerability, and exclusion in postapartheid South Africa. The article draws attention to the affective and political aspects of Mhlongo’s excremental postapartheid vision, a feature of his (and others’) writing which should not be dismissed, for example, as extraneous or merely comic detail. Implicit in the argument is the call for nuanced readings in postapartheid literature of the body and its processes; these representations of corporeality often signal political inequality and exclusion within the social body itself.

摘要

尼克·姆隆戈（Niq Mhlongo）在Dog Eat Dog中使用粪便检测法，这突显了他对幻灭和失望的时间影响的探索。结合批判性的和理论性的关于情感，粪便，后殖民和排斥的著作，这篇文章认为，在种族隔离之后的虚构中，肉体的象征意义和政治意义是重要的。这种重要性在整个Dog Eat Dog中都显而易见，特别是在大学洗手间中的两集中，通过有形的图像探索了种族隔离，南非种族隔离，种族隔离和排斥的主题。这篇文章提请人们注意Mhlongo对种族隔离的排他性幻想的情感和政治方面，这是他（和其他人）写作的一个特征，例如，不应将其视为无关紧要的或仅是喜剧性的细节而忽略不计。该论点暗含了在种族隔离之后的身体及其过程文学中呼吁细致入微的解读。这些有形的表示通常预示着政治不平等和社会主体内部的排斥。