Our final speaker for 1.3 is Anna Frieda Kuhn, with ‘Canine Imaginaries and the Construction of the Other in Early Modern Southern Africa’. #OnBelonging
The idea for this project was sparked by a recent South African production of Antigone that made the figure of the ‘dog’ central to its unravelling of racial concepts both during the colonial, apartheid and post-apartheid periods. #OnBelonging
Ideas of race conceptualised off these caninie imaginaries. Contemporarily, a 'miscellany of animals travelling under sobriquet dog' — hierarchy created and utilised through this figure. #OnBelonging
How English and whiteness go hand in hand with construction of ‘other’ through the figure has been largely undertheorised, though contemporary connection drawn — for example, Johannes Caius, ‘Of Englishe Dogges’ (1576). #OnBelonging
How were these figures constructed at the same time, and what was the effect?
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