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    Sara's suicide: History and the representational limit

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    2000
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    Lalu, Premesh
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    This paper deals with cognitive failures and historiographical blind spots in legal and historical representations of the colonised subject. It concerns an archival fragment from the seventeenth century - the suicide of a young woman called Sara in the period of Dutch rule at the Cape. The paper focuses on the production of evidentiary sources and examines the mediations by which a colonial text on subalterns becomes available to the present
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10566/258
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