“The difficult task of normalizing freedom”: Spectacular Masculinities, Ndebele’s Literary/Cultural Commentary and Post-Apartheid Life

Abstract

What matters is what is seen. Thinking is secondary to seeing. Subtlety is secondary to obviousness. What is finally left and what is deeply etched in our minds is the spectacular contest between the powerless and the powerful.

(Ndebele, “Rediscovery” 39)