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Performing the Primitive in the Postcolony: Nyoni’s Kraal in Cape Town

verfasst von: Daniel Hammett, Neelika Jayawardane

Erschienen in: Urban Forum | Ausgabe 2/2009

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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 in Cape Town—we 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. We 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.

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Titel: Performing the Primitive in the Postcolony: Nyoni’s Kraal in Cape Town
verfasst von: Daniel Hammett
Neelika Jayawardane
Publikationsdatum: 01.05.2009
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Urban Forum / Ausgabe 2/2009
Print ISSN: 1015-3802
Elektronische ISSN: 1874-6330
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-009-9055-z

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