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What Is Slavery to Me? Postcolonial / Slave Memory and the Post-Apartheid South Africa

Name: What Is Slavery to Me?
Author: Pumla Dineo Gqola

Auteur: Pumla Dineo Gqola

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Pumla Dineo Gqola

Engels
Paperback
9781868145072
13 november 2015
247 pagina's

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Much has been made about South Africa's transition from histories of colonialism, slavery and apartheid. Memory features prominently in the country's reckoning with its pasts. While there has been an outpouring of academic essays, anthologies and other full-length texts which study this transition, most have focused on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Pumla Dineo Gqola's What is slavery to me? links with that research in its concern with South Africa's past and the meaning-making processes attendant to it, but reads specifically memory activity which pertains to colonial slavery as practiced predominantly in the Western Cape for three centuries by the British and Dutch. What is slavery to me? is the first full-length study of slave memory in the South African context, and examines the relevance and effects of slave memory for contemporary negotiations of South African gendered and radicalised identities. It draws from feminist, postcolonial and memory studies and is therefore interdisciplinary in approach. It reads memory as one way of processing this past, and interprets a variety of cultural, literary and filmic texts to ascertain the particular experiences in relation to slave pasts being fashioned, processed and disseminated. Much of the material surveyed across disciplines attributes to memory, or popular history making , a dialogue between past and present whilst ascribing sense to both the eras and their relationship. In this sense then, memory is active, entailing a personal relationship with the past which acts as mediator of reality on a day to day basis. The projects studies various negotiations of raced and gendered identities in creative and other public spaces in contemporary South Africa, by being particularly attentive to the encoding of consciousness about the country's slave past. This book extends memory studies in South Africa, provokes new lines of inquiry, and develops new frameworks through which to think about slavery and memory in South Africa.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 13 november 2015
Aantal pagina's: 247
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Hoofdauteur: Pumla Dineo Gqola
Hoofduitgeverij: Paul & Co Pub Consortium

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Verpakking breedte: 146 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 13 mm
Verpakking lengte: 210 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 363 g

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

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Sociale groepen

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Feminisme

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Afrika

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Taal: Engels
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Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
Land: Zuid-Afrika

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