Digestible memories in South Africa’s recent past: processing the Slave Lodge Museum and the memorial to the enslaved

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dc.article.start-page1230
dc.contributor.authorCloete, Nicola
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-22T12:58:26Z
dc.date.available2024-11-22T12:58:26Z
dc.date.issued2021-07
dc.description.abstractGiven the recent oppressive histories of apartheid and colonialism, the legacies of slavery in South Africa are often overlooked in thinking about aspects of post-apartheid democracy’s discursive formulation of race, nation, and reconciliation. This paper analyses how two examples in Cape Town – the permanent exhibition Representing Slavery at the Slave Lodge Museum and the Memorial to the Enslaved in Church Square – represent the historic event of slavery in South Africa. The paper argues that the museum exhibition and the memorial site are instances of memorialisation and simultaneously function as political processes that offer insight into discourses of race and reconciliation in South Africa during the early stages of democracy.
dc.description.submitterPM2024
dc.facultyFaculty of Humanities
dc.identifier0000-0003-1185-3693
dc.identifier.citationNicola Cloete (2021) Digestible Memories in South Africa’s Recent Past: processing the Slave Lodge Museum and the Memorial to the Enslaved, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 27:12, 1230-1244, DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2021.1950030
dc.identifier.issn1352-7258 (online)
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/42844
dc.journal.titleInternational Journal of Heritage Studies
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Group
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVol. 27; No. 12
dc.rights© Nicola Cloete 2021.
dc.schoolWits School of Arts
dc.subjectSlavery
dc.subjectPost-apartheid
dc.subjectSouth Africa
dc.subjectMemory
dc.subjectRepresentation
dc.subjectRace
dc.subjectReconciliation
dc.subjectMemory making
dc.subject.otherSDG-10: Reduced inequalities
dc.titleDigestible memories in South Africa’s recent past: processing the Slave Lodge Museum and the memorial to the enslaved
dc.typeArticle
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