Abstract
SummaryIn its insistence on the allegorical frame of South African transformations that attend the disfigured stature of a hero into a cauldron of Kafkaesque sterility and grotesque existence, this paper draws parallels between Gregor Samsa's bizarre hidden away condition and awkwardness of South Africa's insularity and exceptionalism. In arguing for an integrated idea of South Africa, on the basis of Mandela's pluriversalism, it offers a retrieval of South Africa's simultaneous worldliness and Africanness, further to provide a decolonial critique of what counts as a place called South Africa from an ontological perspective of what Lewis R. Gordon in the fashion of Frantz Fanon calls a zone of “being and non-being” (2005). However, it adds two further dimensions: the immanent conditions of becoming South Africa(n) and the drives that define the agency of attaining ontological totality for putative citizens and denizens in South Africa.
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