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Sara's suicide: History and the representational limit
(University of the Western Cape, 2000)
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 ...
Journeys from the horizons of history: Text, trial and tales in the construction of narratives of pain
(Southern African Literature and Culture Centre, UKZN, 1996-10)
This article draws
inspiration from Jauss's theorisation of the concepts of horizon, reception, and
construction. The problem we confront relates to the way we receive, interpret,
and apply texts without cognisance of ...
Apartheid's university: Notes on the renewal of the Enlightenment
(CODESRIA, 2007)
This paper sets to work on strategies for forging new and critical humanities at the institutional site of the university that appears to be trapped in the legacies of apartheid. The paper suggests that the university's ...