Seeing What Is Not There

Figuring the Anarchive
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-70696-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Research / Art / Writing

Any encounter with colonial archives leaves one deeply aware that the voices of the oppressed have been rendered mute. In this book, Zaayman delves into the archives associated with Krotoa and Anne Barnard, two women who lived in the Cape colony. Through them, she identifies the absolute absences that attend all archives, and names them “the Anarchive”. This term signals irrecoverability and compels us to turn our attention towards the intangible ways in which the past lives with us in the present, away from the archive. Employing artistic methodologies to instantiate the Anarchive, Zaayman intimates the immense losses brought about by colonialism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zaayman, Carine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Carine Zaayman is a researcher and research coordinator at the Research Centre for Material Culture at the Wereldmuseum in the Netherlands. Her work focuses on the afterlives of slavery and colonialism, particularly in the Cape, in projects such as Under Cover of Darkness, and as co-author of the Slavery Heritage Guide of the Cape (2025) with Nancy Jouwe.