Seeing What Is Not There

Figuring the Anarchive

Carine Zaayman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

314 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
9789004706965 (ISBN)

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Via a serious grappling with the anarchive, or the absolute absences in the archives associated with Krotoa and Anne Barnard, Zaayman unsettles the hold that colonial archives would hold over our connection to the past and its people.

Any encounter with colonial archives leaves one deeply aware that the voices of the oppressed have been rendered mute. In this book, Zaayman delves into the archives associated with Krotoa and Anne Barnard, two women who lived in the Cape colony. Through them, she identifies the absolute absences that attend all archives, and names them “the Anarchive”. This term signals irrecoverability and compels us to turn our attention towards the intangible ways in which the past lives with us in the present, away from the archive. Employing artistic methodologies to instantiate the Anarchive, Zaayman intimates the immense losses brought about by colonialism.

Carine Zaayman is a researcher and research coordinator at the Research Centre for Material Culture at the Wereldmuseum in the Netherlands. Her work focuses on the afterlives of slavery and colonialism, particularly in the Cape, in projects such as Under Cover of Darkness, and as co-author of the Slavery Heritage Guide of the Cape (2025) with Nancy Jouwe.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.12.2025
Reihe/Serie	Research / Art / Writing ; 3
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-13	9789004706965 / 9789004706965
Zustand	Neuware