San Representation

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).

• 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