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Gabeba Baderoon - Regarding Muslims: From Slavery to Postapartheid - 9781868147694 - V9781868147694
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Regarding Muslims: From Slavery to Postapartheid

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Description for Regarding Muslims: From Slavery to Postapartheid Paperback. How do Muslims fit into South Africa's well-known narrative of colonialism, apartheid and postapartheid? South Africa is infamous for apartheid, but the country's foundation was laid by 176 years of slavery from 1658 to 1834, which formed a crucible of war, genocide and systemic sexual violence that continues to haunt the country today. Num Pages: 224 pages, Colour section with 10 images. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JFC; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
How do Muslims fit into South Africa's well-known narrative of colonialism, apartheid, and postapartheid? South Africa is known for apartheid, but the country's foundation was laid by 176 years of slavery from 1658 to 1834, which formed a crucible of war, genocide, and systemic sexual violence that continues to shape the country today. Enslaved people from East Africa, India, and Southeast Asia, many of whom were Muslim, would eventually constitute the majority of the population of the colony. Drawing on an extensive popular and official archive, Regarding Muslims analyzes the role of Muslims from South Africa's founding moments to the contemporary period and points to the resonance of these discussions elsewhere. It argues that the 350-year archive of images documenting the presence of Muslims in South Africa is central to understanding the formation of concepts of race, sexuality, and belonging. In contrast to the themes of extremism and alienation that dominate Western portrayals of Muslims, Regarding Muslims explores an extensive repertoire of picturesque Muslim figures in South African popular culture, which oscillates with more disquieting images that occasionally burst into prominence during moments of crisis. This pattern is illustrated through analyses of etymology, popular culture, visual art, jokes, bodily practices, oral narratives, and literature. The book ends with the complex vision of Islam conveyed in the postapartheid period.

Product Details

Publisher
Wits University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
356g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Johannesburg, South Africa
ISBN
9781868147694
SKU
V9781868147694
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99-50

About Gabeba Baderoon
Gabeba Baderoon is a South African poet and scholar and the author of the poetry collections, The Dream in the Next Body and A Hundred Silences, and the monograph Regarding Muslims: from slavery to post-apartheid (Wits, 2014). In 2014, her short story The Year of Sleeping Badly was selected as one of the Best Short Stories of South Africa's Democracy. Baderoon received the DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Poetry and held the Guest Writer Fellowship at the Nordic Africa Institute in 2005. She is a member of the editorial board of the African Poetry Book Fund, and teaches Women's Studies and African Studies at Pennsylvania State University. See www.gabeba.com for further details about her work.

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