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| Title: | Topological sorrows: perspectives on a changing way of life in oral histories from the Cape of Good Hope and Red Hill areas |
| Author: | Heiss, Silke |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Periodical: | African Studies |
| Volume: | 60 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Period: | July |
| Pages: | 135-158 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | urban history oral history Education and Oral Traditions History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Ethnic and Race Relations Urbanization and Migration |
| External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00020180120063665 |
| Abstract: | This paper emerged out of six months of oral history research conducted for the University of Cape Town Western Cape Oral History Project in 1995. The focus of the project was to explore aspects of discourse in oral history interviews and, in particular, discourse on life in the natural - that is, 'undeveloped'- environments of the Cape of Good Hope and Red Hill (South Africa). It was therefore necessary to interview individuals whose life histories were inseparable from their existence on this strip of 'undeveloped' land and its surrounding waters. Material was gathered with the intention of comparing various perceptions of, and modes of articulating, the natural environment. Three types of articulation suggested themselves in the interviews: performative (or oral-gestural), descriptive (or literary), and finally, utterances which situated themselves 'between' these two by superimposing aspects of both. It was in this third category that nostalgia for a 'lost space' was most apparent. Bibliogr., notes. |
