Shells on the Shores of Memory - Alexandra Negri Kartoniert (TB)

Shells on the Shores of Memory draws together South African Coloured and Indian narratives about different periods in South African history to show how the literary representation of the colonial and the apartheid period diverge and at times converge. In so doing it addresses these narratives not merely in terms of their post-coloniality or subalternity but rather through the prism of the inescapable significance of space and place for issues of South African identity formation and struggles. In addition to its thematic focus on the way in which the violence(s) and vulnerabilities that play out on both a public and an intimate level are contingent upon one's socio-spatial environment this study also approaches contradictory emotional responses such as pride nostalgia shame or guilt as corollaries in the socio-spatial paradigm. Marrying insights from psychoanalysis cultural studies and poststructuralism this book offers a fresh comparative approach to two disparate writing traditions and trajectories that have largely been kept separate in academic and public debate thus enriching our understanding of post-apartheid literature and offering a valuable addition to the field of postcolonial studies.CONTENTS1 Introduction: Memory after Violence .............................................................. 11.1 Terminology: Ethnic and Race Labels ............................................................ 41.2 Violence(s) Vulnerability and Shame ............................................................ 52 The (Un)speakability of Indian Ocean Slavery:Yvette Christiansë's Unconfessed ................................................................... 152.1 Ambiguous Silences and Hertseer as Metaphor .............................................. 162.2 (Un)writing Violence through Autodiegesis .................................................... 252.3 Situational Ethics and the Predicament ofBeing a Mother and a Slave .......... 272.4 Sila's Ambiguous Revenge Visions ................................................................ 312.5 Conclusion: What is dis-appearing? ................................................................ 353 (Re)writing Indian Indenture in South Africa:Aziz Hassim's Revenge of Kali ....................................................................... 363.1 Aziz Hassim's Revenge of Kali and the Retrievalof Natal's Sugarcane Hills ............................................................................... 393.2 The (Un)speakability of the Female Experience of Indenture ......................... 403.3 Displacement and (Dis)empowerment: The Male Experience of Indentureand the Indentured Diaspora ............................................................................ 453.4 Conclusion: Reclaiming the Indian Ocean Paradigm ...................................... 554 Odyssey of a Dissident District:District Six Memorialisation and Literature .................................................... 574.1 The Wasteland of District Six ......................................................................... 574.2 Nostalgic Reminiscences: Cape Town's District Six Museum ........................ 584.3 Emasculation and (Dis)empowerment in Waiting for Leilaand A Walk in the Night .............................................................................. 634.4 From Shameful Political Inertia to Political Transcendencein La Guma and Dangor .................................................................................. 704.5 Nostalgia and Politics in Richard Rive's Buckingham Palace ........................ 734.6 Conclusion: Negotiating Deterministic Despair and Nostalgic Hope .........