Slavery and Post-Apartheid Cultural Production in South Africa

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Holding Memory

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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In Slavery and Post-Apartheid Cultural Production in South Africa: Holding Memory Nicola Cloete investigates the intricacies of memory, heritage, identity, and nation-building within the context of South Africa’s history of slavery.Combining theoretical, archival, and ethnographic research through an interdisciplinary use of memory, the author crafts new frameworks for analyzing how memory is mobilized in recovering histories of slavery in post-apartheid South Africa. By examining wine farms, museums and memorials, walking tours and ethnographic experiences, the book elucidates how memory is embodied and emplaced through affective encounters. Using diverse theoretical approaches to memory, Cloete devises a theory of “holding memory” and ultimately argues that memory enables a validated claim for participation and belonging in the post-apartheid nation for a range of stakeholders through the mobilization of a previously marginalized historic event.An important contribution, this book shows how memories of slavery are negotiated and deployed between cultural identity and national discourses of race and reconciliation. It will be of interest to researchers in the fields of cultural and sensory studies and memory studies.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-05-15
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSlavery and Emancipation
Antal sidor146
FörlagPallas Publications
ISBN9789048569090

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Etnicitet inom Samhalle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhalle och politik
Afrikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Kolonialism och imperialism inom Historia och arkeologi

INTRODUCTIONBeing Shaped by SlaveryBackground—finding a placeFinding a nameFinding a trace—memory and lossArchives and lossA meagre storyResurgencesRace and nationalism as discursive formationSlavery and racial identitiesInterdisciplinary approaches to slavery in South AfricaEmplacementThe politics of memory, identity and heritageRepresentation, memory and discourses of the nation in South AfricaStructure of the bookChapter outlineA note on terminology and naming practicesReturning to meagre storiesBibliographyCHAPTER ONEDigesting Institutional Memories of SlaveryIntroductionCape Town’s slave heritage—transforming memory into living legacyPan-African heritage—reconciling memory and markets in GhanaThe memory of slavery as a transnational discourseMuseumsPalatable narratives of slaveryThe Slave Lodge MuseumRemembering slaveryHistory of exhibition developmentThe Slave Lodge and a palimpsestic exhibition practiceSão JoséMonuments and memorialsThe Memorial to the EnslavedSlave forts as memorial sitesConclusionBibliographyCHAPTER TWOHistories in Motion: Walking Tours as Critical Engagements with the Geography and Memory of SlaveryIntroductionWalking as methodologyWalking and forms of commemorationHeritage tourism and walking toursSlavery and ‘Coloured’ identities‘Coloured’ as social and historical categorySetting out—Cape Town heritage toursAttempts at progressive engagement—Slave Heritage Walks of Cape TownRemembering as return—Transcending History ToursWalking with slaverySimon’s Town Walking History TourConclusionBibliographyCHAPTER THREESeeing Slavery Today: The Social Politics of Wine FarmsIntroduction‘Coloured’ as political identitySeeing slaverySolms-Delta todaySolms-Delta historyTheoretical framingsConsidering memory and placeSolms-Delta—a sociopolitical and economic reconstruction of the pastSlave narratives in museum and wine-tasting contextsMuseum van de CaabSlavery in Museum van de CaabGroot Constantia Wine Farm and Museum complexAesthetic reflections of enslavement—Spier Wine FarmConclusionBibliographyCONCLUSIONThe Naming of Karel Cloete and Emergent Histories of EnslavementAll I have inherited is the forgettingFinding the thread—family photographs, oral histories, memories and archivesBringing some threads togetherFinding myself in the objectsBibliography