ABSTRACT

Given the recent oppressive histories of apartheid and colonialism, the legacies of slavery in South Africa are often overlooked in thinking about aspects of post-apartheid democracy’s discursive formulation of race, nation, and reconciliation. This paper analyses how two examples in Cape Town – the permanent exhibition Representing Slavery at the Slave Lodge Museum and the Memorial to the Enslaved in Church Square – represent the historic event of slavery in South Africa. The paper argues that the museum exhibition and the memorial site are instances of memorialisation and simultaneously function as political processes that offer insight into discourses of race and reconciliation in South Africa during the early stages of democracy.

摘要

鉴于最近种族隔离和殖民主义的压迫历史，在思考后种族隔离民主对种族、民族和和解的话语表述的各个方面时，南非奴隶制的遗产往往被忽视。本文分析了开普敦的两个例子——奴隶旅馆博物馆的永久展览代表奴隶制和教堂广场的奴隶制纪念碑——如何代表南非奴隶制的历史事件。该论文认为，博物馆展览和纪念场所是纪念活动的实例，同时作为政治进程发挥作用，提供对南非早期民主阶段种族和和解话语的洞察力。