Research Publications (Centre for Humanities Research): Recent submissions
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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 ... -
When was South African history ever postcolonial?
(History Department, UWC, 2008)In this article I argue that what enabled affiliation to the larger political project against apartheid was precisely the production of a subject that was always, and necessarily, threaded through a structure of racial ...