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Whites Writing Whiteness

Letters, Domestic Figurations & Representations of Whiteness in South Africa 1770s-1970s

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Working Papers

Working Papers

Occasional working papers connected with WWW project research will be published in downloadable pdf format.

2022 Plato’s Epistlles and Letterness

2018: To the Letter: An Overview of Letters in Sociology

2017: The Henry Francis Fynn Letters: Assemblages, Ontologies and the Trace

2016: A Settler Woman and Business in the Eastern Cape

2016: Im/Proper, Un/Real and False/True Letters 

2015: Forbes Letters: Decade By Decade

2015: Troubles in Archives: Misleading Assemblages, Awkward Activisms and Trickster Traces

2015: What Do We Do, About the Past?

Last updated: 15 June 2022


 

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