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Title:Performing the primitive in the postcolony: Nyoni's Kraal in Cape Town
Authors:Hammett, DanielISNI
Jayawardane, Neelika
Year:2009
Periodical:Urban Forum
Volume:20
Issue:2
Pages:215-233
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:tourism
restaurants
culture contact
images
External link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12132-009-9055-z
Abstract:The production of particular spaces for tourist consumption of the 'exotic' other involves the performance of particular conceptualizations of people and places that recreates theatrical versions of the primitive. Through analysis of one such space - Nyoni's Kraal, a South-Africa-themed restaurant in Cape Town - the authors contend that both hosts and visitors are complicit in the construction of these spaces and imaginaries. To this end, practices of social and spatial policing as well as performativity and representations of cultural constructs of an 'authentic Africa' are deployed in the projection of a specific form of constructed, 'benign' multiculturalism. The authors contend that such practices reproduce a mythical idyll of Africa for consumption that recreates - rather than questions - colonial power structures, and therefore remain imbued with the inequitable and uncertain outcomes of modernity. Bibliogr., note, sum. [Journal abstract]
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