Recently, many major cities in both the Uni- ted States and Canada purport to be postracial, and North American journalists centralize rhetoric of multiculturalism, diversity, and pro- gress when writing about Canadian or American metropolises (Hune- Brown).
Skin Salvaged: Die Antwoord, Oscar Pistorius, and the Spectacle of the Flesh in the Rainbow Nation KIERA OBBARD AND STEPHANIE CORK Introduction HE AFRICAN CONTINENT, HISTORICALLY RAVAGED BY COLONIALISM, is often positioned as Other in relation to the recognizable T and therefore acceptable Western hegemony of whiteness, affluence, and progress. American media representa- tions of Pistorius Through the sensationalizing of their stories, a for- mer image of a wild and violent South Africa has been reinvigorated, with these figures allegedly revealing the innate differences between the civilized West and the exotic rest. The representations of the band and the sprinter in popular culture seem to reinforce the East/West binary instead of analyzing the bodywork with which the band and the sprinter engage.
Within these so-called tolerant spaces, a simultaneous Orientalist narrative of South Africa as primitive is evoked in media representations, and subsequent American popularization of figures emerging from South Africa such as the Paralympian Oscar Pistorius and the band Die Antwoord.
Skin Salvaged: Die Antwoord, Oscar Pistorius, and the Spectacle of the Flesh in the Rainbow Nation Skin Salvaged: Die Antwoord, Oscar Pistorius, and the Spectacle of the Flesh in the Rainbow Nation