Satanism and Family Murder in Late Apartheid South Africa

This book discusses two moral panics that appeared in the media in late apartheid South Africa: the Satanism scare and the so-called epidemic of white family murder. The analysis of these symptoms of social and political change reveals important truths about whiteness, gender, violence, history, nationalism and injustice in South Africa and beyond.

Autorentext

Nicky Falkof was born and raised in the Johannesburg suburbs during the last years of apartheid. She holds an MA in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex and a PhD from the London Consortium. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Inhalt
Introduction: Dark Tales, White Wolves
PART I: SATANISM

1. Excavations
2. Anatomy Of A Moral Panic
3. History And Identity
4. Older Anxieties
5. Resistance And (Bio)Power
   PART II: FAMILY MURDER
6. A Death In The Family
7. The Afrikaans Family Romance
8. A ' 'Bloody Epidemic ' '
9. The Righteous Path
10. The Whitest White
    Conclusion: The End Of Whiteness