San Representation: Politics, Practice and Possibilities

ISBN-13: 9781138898448 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 276 str.

Opis

This book examines various aspects of San and Khoe representation, in the sense of both representation of the Khoe and San by others, including academic writing and also representation of various sorts by people who have been identified as Khoe or San in the past or who themselves claim such an identity today. This book was originally published as two special issues of Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies.

Spis treści

1. San representation: an overview of the field  2. To exhibit or be exhibited: the visual art of Vetkat Regopstaan Boesman Kruiper  3. Simulacral, genealogical, auratic and representational failure: Bushman authenticity as methodological collapse  4. Development narratives: the value of multiple voices and ontologies in Kalahari research  5. The music of dead sisters: a feminist comparison of two folktales about singing bones and reeds  6. The creation of the eland: a close reading of a Drakensberg San narrative  7. The damaging effects of romantic mythopoeia on Khoesan linguistics  8. The Boer and the Jackal: Satire and Resistance in Khoi Orature  9. ‘Di-xerreten and the lioness’: text and landscape of a |Xam narrative  10. Who owns what? Indigenous knowledge and struggles over representation  11. Narrating Biesje Poort: negotiating absence of storyline, vagueness and multivocality in the representation of Southern Kalahari rock engravings  12. ‘Different people’ coming together: representations of alterity in |Xam Bushman (San) narrative  13. Icons and archives: the Orpen lithograph in the context of 19th-century depictions of rock paintings  14. Truths, representationalism and disciplinarity in Khoesan researches  15. Researching the San, San/ding the research

O autorze

Keyan G. Tomaselli was Director of the Centre for Communication Media and Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. His books on the topic include Cultural Tourism: Rethinking Indigeneity (2012), Writing in the San/d (2007), and Where Global Contradictions are Sharpest (2005). Michael Wessels teaches World Literature in English at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He has written extensively about San narrative and the theory and politics of interpreting folklore and mythology. He is the author of Bushman Letters (2010).