Writing South Africa: Shame and identity: the case of the coloured in South Africa

摘要: …Also: brown contains black – (?) How would a person behave for us to say of him that he knows pure, primary brown? We must always bear in mind the question: do people learn meaning colour names? wittgenstein , Remarks on Colour In 1980s South Africans discovered Khoi/coloured woman Saartje Baartman, once known as Hottentot Venus, who was exhibited London and Paris from 1810 her death 1815. nineteenth century Europe, Sander Gilman points out, display spectacular steatopygia its generation medical discourse Khoi genitalia established iconographic link between sexual lasciviousness (‘Black Bodies, White Bodies’, 216). Since last decade has seen well referenced African visual art writing, popular outrage moved government apply France return whose remains are still held by Musee de l'homme (though they were removed public 1980s). Having New Africa become an icon postcoloniality, Baartman's case can be one several initiatives towards reconstructing national cultural past.