Event overview
This talk examines landscape paintings, popular culture and literature to trace the role of slavery and Islam in shaping foundational notions of race, sexuality and belonging in South Africa.
Rather than simply being the pre-history to apartheid, slavery was the central social and economic force from 1658-1838 in the Cape Colony, the first and largest of the colonies that would eventually constitute South Africa, and the slave-holding system has left a profound legacy in the country. Most people brought to the Cape as slaves were Muslim, and enslaved people eventually formed the majority of the population of the Colony.
Gabeba Baderoon is the author of ‘Regarding Muslims: from Slavery to Post-apartheid’ (2014) and the poetry collections ‘The Dream in the Next Body’ and ‘A Hundred Silences’. She is an Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and African Studies at Pennsylvania State University, and an Extraordinary Professor of English at Stellenbosch University.
Chair: Henriette Gunkel
The event is free and no booking is required. All are welcome
Dates & times
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26 Feb 2015 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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