Springbok, Farmers, Places and Shards: Reading and Writing the Bleek-Lloyd Archive

Abstract

This is a narrative essay which reflects on the experience of reading the nineteenthcentury Bleek-Lloyd archive of /Xam testimonies (both in the original collection of
exercise books in which they were transcribed and in the online collection which
has recently been established) in the light of a preoccupation with the contemporary
local-global crisis of environment and development.

Current Writing Vol. 19 (1) 2007: pp. 137-152