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Re-articulating History: Historical Play, Nation, Text .
(University of Western Cape, 2006)
The writing of history in postapartheid South Africa constitutes a crisis for the discipline of history as, I argue, it requires the discipline to confront its role in contributing towards the constitution of the condition ...
'Unearthing' the 'essential' past: The making of a public 'national' memory through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 1994-1998
(University of the Western Cape, 1998)
At a lecture presented in London on June 5, 1994, Jacques Derrida discussed the complexities of
the meaning of the archive. He described the duality in meaning of the word archive-in terms of
temporality and spatiality-as ...
Things pretty dull: materiality and the making of Muizenberg in the 20th and 21st centuries
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
The purpose of this research is to explore processes of historical production and ideas about public space in Muizenberg, South Africa. It argues that the dominant narrative told about Muizenberg from the late nineteenth ...