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Imagining the Cape Colony - History, literature and the South African nation (Paperback)
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Imagining the Cape Colony - History, literature and the South African nation (Paperback)
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List price R400
Loot Price R312
Discovery Miles 3 120
You Save R88 (22%)
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Postcolonial history and literary culture is of wide interest
currently. Imagining the Cape Colony revisits a key phase of South
African history - the period 1770-1830 - addressing debates about
nationalism, colonialism and neo-colonialism, and
postcolonial/post-apartheid literary culture. The American
Revolution of 1776 and the French Revolution of 1789 produced the
most influential forms of the modern nation state. This book
interrogates their impact in a specific colonial and literary
context. The book examines how anti-colonial struggles of the past
have been represented and inscribed over time, such as the early
modern Portuguese literary and historical narratives of the defeat
of Dom Francisco d'Almeida at the Cape in 1510. It looks at French
representations of the Cape 'Hottentots' - by Jean Tavernier,
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Francois Levaillant - and analyses them
against the anomalous treatment of the Khoisan post apartheid. The
author reflects on settler nationalism as expressed in speeches,
poems and novels, as well as Cape slavery and historical accounts
of the Griqua nation. The book presents a wide-ranging survey of
the very many textual 'imaginings' of the Cape Colony; a
historically nuanced investigation of theories of 'nation' and
'colony'; an exposition of substantial archival material on the
Cape from the period 1770-1830; a politically engaged discussion of
colonial/postcolonial and apartheid/post-apartheid literary
histories; and a critical dialogue between South Africa's colonial
past and post-apartheid present.
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