dc.contributor.author | Lalu, Premesh | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-10-11T08:14:52Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-10-11T08:14:52Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2000 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Lalu, Premesh. (2000). Sara's suicide: History and the representational limit. Kronos, No. 89: 89-101 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.jstor.org/stable/41056412 . | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10566/258 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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 | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of the Western Cape | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright belongs to the author. The journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence, allowing readers to copy, distribute and transmit the material as long as full acknowledgement of the author and published source is given. | |
dc.subject | Colonialism | en_US |
dc.subject | Historiography | en_US |
dc.subject | Cape history | en_US |
dc.subject | Archival sources | en_US |
dc.subject | Court records | en_US |
dc.subject | Legal discourse | en_US |
dc.subject | Subalternity | en_US |
dc.title | Sara's suicide: History and the representational limit | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.privacy.showsubmitter | true | |
dc.status.ispeerreviewed | true | |