Sara's suicide: History and the representational limit

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
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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
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dc.status.ispeerreviewed	true