Becoming with the dog in South Africa Reflections on family, memory, and human-animal relations in post-apartheid South Africa

Can the relationship White people have with the figure of the dog, in what currently exists as South Africa, be free of antiblackness? Following instances where I saw black women who worked as domestic workers walk dogs belonging to their White employers, I write these letters addressed to you, my sister, Palesa – meditating on the dog-Human relationships as sites of racial violence. The core analytic framework and theory I employ to explore these extreme, mundane, and in-between forms of violence, is Afro-Pessimism.

Grantor

Department of English Language and Literature

Year dc:date.issued

2022

Author dc:creator

• Ndaba, Mpho Antoon

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Twidle, Hedley

• Antiblackness
• dogs
• White supremacy
• Afro-Pessimism
• Anthropocene
• violence
• apartheid
• post-apartheid
• South Africa

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/37662

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/37662