We of the Khoin, we never thought of these mountains and plains, - TopicsExpress



          

We of the Khoin, we never thought of these mountains and plains, these long grasslands and marshes as a wild place to be tamed. It was the Whites who called it wild and saw it filled with wild animals and wild people. To us it has always been friendly and tame. It has given us food and drink and shelter, even in the worst of droughts. It was only when the Whites moved in and started digging and breaking and shooting, and driving off the animals, that it really became wild. (Brink 1983: 21) Such literary discourse, like the examples mentioned previously, raises the following question. Does this example reflect the thoughts of the Khoin people themselves, or does it reflect a European representation of the Khoin as ‘noble savages’? Robert Miles. Racism, p. 24
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 03:46:44 +0000

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