Sara's suicide: History and the representational limit

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dc.contributor.authorLalu, Premesh
dc.date.accessioned11/10/2011 10:14
dc.date.available11/10/2011 10:14
dc.date.issued2000
dc.description.abstractThis 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 presenten_US
dc.identifier.citationLalu, Premesh. (2000). Sara's suicide: History and the representational limit. Kronos, No. 89: 89-101en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.jstor.org/stable/41056412 .
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/258
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterTRUE
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rightsCopyright belongs to the author. The journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence, allowing readers to copy, distribute and transmit the material as long as full acknowledgement of the author and published source is given.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectColonialismen_US
dc.subjectHistoriographyen_US
dc.subjectCape historyen_US
dc.subjectArchival sourcesen_US
dc.subjectCourt recordsen_US
dc.subjectLegal discourseen_US
dc.subjectSubalternityen_US
dc.titleSara's suicide: History and the representational limiten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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