Abstract:
This essay offers a reading of South African Anglophone play, Sizwe Bansi
is Dead, through biopolitical lenses, with a view to shedding light on dis-embodied
political killings prompted by racism in the contemporary world, and to interrogating
the means by which these murders are recurrently restructured and justified.
Although the play is under the spotlight of scholarly attention, it is scarcely read
through biopolitical lenses, especially through Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Ann
Laura Stoler and Achille Mbembe’s perspectives related to racism and political
death, and by alluding to its significance for the contemporary society. This is where
this article departs from the existing scholarship.
