TY  - BOOK
AU  - Edward Cavanagh
PY  - 2012
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1662-1212
SN  - 9783035301892
TI  - The Griqua Past and the Limits of South African History, 1902-1994
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0189-2
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1052480
N2  - The Griqua people are commonly misunderstood. Today, they do not figure in the South African imagination as other peoples do, nor have they for over a century. This book argues that their comparative invisibility is a result of their place in the national narrative.  In this revisionist analysis of South African historiography, the author analyses over a century’s worth of historical studies and identifies a number of narrative frameworks that have proven resilient to change over this time. The Griqua, in particular, have fared poorly compared to other peoples. They appear in, and disappear from, this body of work in a number of consistent ways, almost as though scholars have avoided re-imagining their history in ways relevant to the present. This book questions why that might be the case.
KW  - Griqua people, the writing of a Griqua Historian, South African History, 1902-1994, Eric M. S. Le Fleur, The Griqua in History after 1994
LA  - English
ER  -