What is slavery to me? : postcolonial/slave memory in post-apartheid South Africa /
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 s...
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Johannesburg :
Wits University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Tracing (re)memory, thinking through echoes of colonial slavery in contemporary South Africa.
- Remembering differently: repositioned coloured identitiess in a democracy.
- (Not) representing Sarah Bartmann.
- Whiteness remixed, or remembered impurity, shame and television.
- 'As a slave you have to have faith or you'l give up': Cape Malay/Muslim identity clusters in Cape Town.
- 'Is the secret in cooking?' Coded food, spice routes and processing Malay identities.
- Conclusion: unshackling memory, rememorying agency.
