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Becoming with the dog in South Africa Reflections on family, memory, and human-animal relations in post-apartheid South Africa
Can the relationship White people have with the figure of the dog, in what currently exists as South Africa, be free of antiblackness? Following instances where I saw black women who worked as domestic workers walk dogs belonging to their White employers, I write these letters addressed to you, my s...
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| description | Can the relationship White people have with the figure of the dog, in what currently exists as South Africa, be free of antiblackness? Following instances where I saw black women who worked as domestic workers walk dogs belonging to their White employers, I write these letters addressed to you, my sister, Palesa – meditating on the dog-Human relationships as sites of racial violence. The core analytic framework and theory I employ to explore these extreme, mundane, and in-between forms of violence, is Afro-Pessimism. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/37662 Becoming with the dog in South Africa Reflections on family, memory, and human-animal relations in post-apartheid South Africa Ndaba, Mpho Antoon Twidle, Hedley Antiblackness dogs White supremacy Afro-Pessimism Anthropocene violence apartheid post-apartheid South Africa Can the relationship White people have with the figure of the dog, in what currently exists as South Africa, be free of antiblackness? Following instances where I saw black women who worked as domestic workers walk dogs belonging to their White employers, I write these letters addressed to you, my sister, Palesa – meditating on the dog-Human relationships as sites of racial violence. The core analytic framework and theory I employ to explore these extreme, mundane, and in-between forms of violence, is Afro-Pessimism. 2023-04-04T09:28:19Z 2023-04-04T09:28:19Z 2022 2023-04-04T09:27:58Z Master Thesis Masters MPhil http://hdl.handle.net/11427/37662 eng application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities |
| spellingShingle | Antiblackness dogs White supremacy Afro-Pessimism Anthropocene violence apartheid post-apartheid South Africa Ndaba, Mpho Antoon Becoming with the dog in South Africa Reflections on family, memory, and human-animal relations in post-apartheid South Africa |
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| title | Becoming with the dog in South Africa Reflections on family, memory, and human-animal relations in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_full | Becoming with the dog in South Africa Reflections on family, memory, and human-animal relations in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Becoming with the dog in South Africa Reflections on family, memory, and human-animal relations in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Becoming with the dog in South Africa Reflections on family, memory, and human-animal relations in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_short | Becoming with the dog in South Africa Reflections on family, memory, and human-animal relations in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_sort | becoming with the dog in south africa reflections on family memory and human animal relations in post apartheid south africa |
| topic | Antiblackness dogs White supremacy Afro-Pessimism Anthropocene violence apartheid post-apartheid South Africa |
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