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This introductory lecture series will focus on the political and cultural background to polycultural texts in South Africa. A European colony from 1652 onwards, the region is unique in having been under the rule of the Dutch and the British settlers, despite the fact that the majority population was comprised of African Bantu-language speakers and fast-disappearing indigenous tribal peoples. What kind of cultural production emerges in this kind of a melange – from the beginnings of a settler colony to the imposition of Apartheid to the current 'rainbow nation'? We'll be engaging with these questions when reading/watching a selection of the most important texts from this region in the course of the summer. |
