Representing Bushmen
Subtitle: South Africa and the origin of language
By: Shane Moran.
Series: Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora -- v. 38
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781580462945
Subjects: San (African people); Apartheid; Language and languages -- Origin; Racism in language
Description: "Representing Bushmen draws on the work of Jacques Derrida, Edward Said, and Martin Bernal to show how the study of language was integral to the formation of racial discrimination in South Africa. Author Shane Moran demonstrates the central role of literary history to the cultural racism and ideology that fed into apartheid by tracing the ethno-aesthetic figuration of the Bushmen in W.H.I. Bleek's theory of the origin of language. Moran examines the gestation of colonial ideology, and provocatively traces aspects of the post-apartheid rhetoric of commemoration and national unity to their colonialist roots."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface and acknowledgments; title: Note to the reader; title: Introduction: unity in diversity; title: Colonial intellectual; title: On the origin; title: Human/animal; title: Writing Bushmen; title: Language and blood; title: Colonial family crypt; title: Bushman literature; title: Conclusion: presentiment; title: Notes; title: Bibliography.