Squirming White Bodies: Interracial Encounters in Anton Kannemeyer's “True Love” and Ivan Vladislavić's The Restless Supermarket

This article explores some of the ways in which “whiteness” as a set of discourses is being revised in the post-apartheid cultural imagination. Through a reading of a comic strip by Anton Kannemeyer and of Ivan Vladislavić's novel The Restless Supermarket (2001), the article considers specifically the manner in which performances of whiteness are represented as responding to the pressures felt at the site of the post-apartheid interracial …