Lalu, Premesh11/10/201111/10/20112000Lalu, Premesh. (2000). Sara's suicide: History and the representational limit. Kronos, No. 89: 89-101http://www.jstor.org/stable/41056412 .https://hdl.handle.net/10566/258This 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 presentenCopyright 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.ColonialismHistoriographyCape historyArchival sourcesCourt recordsLegal discourseSubalternityArticle