Untold Tales and Occluded Histories

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Untold Tales and Occluded Histories "
Sarala Krishnamurthy

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1076779
Doc. No	:	LA120408
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18757421-05002009‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Sarala Krishnamurthy
Title & Author	:	Untold Tales and Occluded Histories [Article]\ Sarala Krishnamurthy
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Matatu
Date	:	2020
Volume/ Issue Number	:	50/2
Page No	:	396–406
Abstract	:	The Herero Nama Genocide is a painful period in Namibian history and yet it is the period about which several novels have been written in the past ten years. This article examines one of the novels of this period, The Lie of the Land by Jasper Utley, with a view to exploring the ambivalence in its writing. Using witness bearing and the concept of the ‘Other’ in postcolonialism, I investigate the narrator’s language and lay bare the ambiguities in the novel. I trace the path of the eponymous hero from being a witness to the Nama Genocide to an active involvement in the rescue of a Nama woman whom he falls in love with. The Herero Nama Genocide is a painful period in Namibian history and yet it is the period about which several novels have been written in the past ten years. This article examines one of the novels of this period, The Lie of the Land by Jasper Utley, with a view to exploring the ambivalence in its writing. Using witness bearing and the concept of the ‘Other’ in postcolonialism, I investigate the narrator’s language and lay bare the ambiguities in the novel. I trace the path of the eponymous hero from being a witness to the Nama Genocide to an active involvement in the rescue of a Nama woman whom he falls in love with.
Descriptor	:	agent provocateur
Descriptor	:	genocide
Descriptor	:	Other
Descriptor	:	postcolonialism
Descriptor	:	witness bearing
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18757421-05002009‬