“The Voortrekkers, on their way to Pretoria, 1952”: Doing race in life writing from South Africa to the Netherlands

Barbara Henkes

“The Voortrekkers, on their way to Pretoria, 1952”: Doing race in life writing from South Africa to the Netherlands

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Abstract

This chapter explores how a series of letters from a Dutch migrant woman
can help us to understand how practices of race – its meaning and performing in
daily life – changed when moving from the post-war Netherlands to apartheid
South Africa. From her observations, as they are presented in the weekly letters this young mother wrote to
her parents in Amsterdam, it is possible to further develop new lines of inquiry that
facilitate a transnational perspective on ‘doing race’ and different forms of racism in
the postcolonial 1950s.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Unhinging the National Framework
Subtitle of host publication	Perspectives on transnational life writing
Editors	Babs Boter, Marleen Rensen, Giles Scott-Smith
Place of Publication	Leiden
Publisher	Sidestone press
Chapter	3
Pages	47-64
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	978-90-8890-974-4
ISBN (Print)	978-90-8890-974-0
Publication status	Published - 4-Dec-2020
Event	bookpresentation - VU , Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration: 4-Dec-2020 → 4-Dec-2020

Publication series

Name	Interdisciplinary studies in culture, history and heritage
Publisher	Sidestone Press
Volume	5

Conference

Conference	bookpresentation
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Amsterdam
Period	04/12/2020 → 04/12/2020

Keywords

race
Life writing
transnational networks
South Africa
Apartheid
Netherlands

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Henkes, Barbara. / “The Voortrekkers, on their way to Pretoria, 1952” : Doing race in life writing from South Africa to the Netherlands. Unhinging the National Framework : Perspectives on transnational life writing. editor / Babs Boter ; Marleen Rensen ; Giles Scott-Smith. Leiden : Sidestone press, 2020. pp. 47-64 (Interdisciplinary studies in culture, history and heritage).

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Henkes, B 2020, “The Voortrekkers, on their way to Pretoria, 1952”: Doing race in life writing from South Africa to the Netherlands. in B Boter, M Rensen & G Scott-Smith (eds), Unhinging the National Framework : Perspectives on transnational life writing. Interdisciplinary studies in culture, history and heritage, vol. 5, Sidestone press, Leiden, pp. 47-64, bookpresentation, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 04/12/2020.

“The Voortrekkers, on their way to Pretoria, 1952”: Doing race in life writing from South Africa to the Netherlands. / Henkes, Barbara.
Unhinging the National Framework : Perspectives on transnational life writing. ed. / Babs Boter; Marleen Rensen; Giles Scott-Smith. Leiden: Sidestone press, 2020. p. 47-64 (Interdisciplinary studies in culture, history and heritage; Vol. 5).

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