Becoming with the dog in South Africa Reflections on family, memory, and human-animal relations in post-apartheid South Africa
Master Thesis
2022
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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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Ndaba, M.A. 2022. Becoming with the dog in South Africa Reflections on family, memory, and human-animal relations in post-apartheid South Africa. . ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/37662