Sara's suicide: History and the representational limit
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Date
2000
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
This paper deals with cognitive failures and historiographical blind spots in legal and historical representations of the colonised subject. It concerns an archival fragment from the seventeenth century - the suicide of a young woman called Sara in the period of Dutch rule at the Cape. The paper focuses on the production of evidentiary sources and examines the mediations by which a colonial text on subalterns becomes available to the present
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Colonialism, Historiography, Cape history, Archival sources, Court records, Legal discourse, Subalternity
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Lalu, Premesh. (2000). Sara's suicide: History and the representational limit. Kronos, No. 89: 89-101