Slavery and Post-Apartheid Cultural Production in South Africa

Dr Nicola Cloete is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Curatorial, Public and Visual Studies at Wits University. Her writing can be found in the International Journal of Heritage Studies, the South African Historical Journal, de Arte, Research in Drama Education, and elsewhere.

• Introduction: Being shaped by slaveryBackground—finding a placeFinding a name Finding a trace—memory and loss Archives and loss A meagre story Resurgences Race and nationalism as discursive formation Slavery and racial identities Interdisciplinary approaches to slavery in South Africa Emplacement The politics of memory, identity, and heritage Representation, memory, and discourses of the nation in South Africa Structure of the book Chapter outline A note on terminology and naming practices Returning to meagre stories 1 Digesting institutional memories of slavery Introduction Cape Town’s slave heritage—transforming memory into living legacy Pan-African heritage—reconciling memory and markets in Ghana The memory of slavery as a transnational discourse Museums Palatable narratives of slavery The Slave Lodge Museum Remembering slavery History of exhibition development The Slave Lodge and a palimpsestic exhibition practice São José Monuments and memorials The Memorial to the Enslaved Slave forts as memorial sites Conclusion 2 Histories in motion: Walking tours as critical engagements with the geography and memory of slavery Introduction Walking as methodology Walking and forms of commemoration Heritage tourism and walking tours Slavery and ‘Coloured’ identities ‘Coloured’ as social and historical category Setting out—Cape Town heritage tours Attempts at progressive engagement—Slave Heritage Walks of Cape Town Remembering as return—Transcending History Tours Walking with slavery Simon’s Town Walking History Tour Conclusion 3 Seeing slavery today: The social politics of wine farms Introduction ‘Coloured’ as political identity Seeing slavery Solms-Delta today Solms-Delta historyTheoretical framings Considering memory and place Solms-Delta—a sociopolitical and economic reconstruction of the past Slave narratives in museum and wine-tasting contexts Museum van de Caab Slavery in Museum van de Caab Groot Constantia Wine Farm and Museum complex Aesthetic reflections of enslavement—Spier Wine Farm Conclusion Conclusion: The naming of Karel Cloete and emergent histories of enslavement All I have inherited is the forgetting Finding the thread—family photographs, oral histories, memories, and archives Bringing some threads together Finding myself in the objects Index