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A Partial Necrography of Cape Town

British art studies, 2021-02 (19) [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Feb 2021 ;EISSN: 2058-5462

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  • Title:
    A Partial Necrography of Cape Town
  • Author: Bennett, Bonita
  • Subjects: Apartments ; Excavation ; Funerals
  • Is Part Of: British art studies, 2021-02 (19)
  • Description: A luxury apartment block resplendent with a seventh-floor penthouse conceals a burial ground. Its publicity brochures draw attention to the views from above: Table Mountain, Signal Hill, and a view of Cape Town's Victoria & Alfred Waterfront. Keeping the gaze turned upwards directs attention away from what lies beneath: an exhumed burial ground where thousands of human bodies and their human life stories are elided from mind as well as from sight. In 2003, human remains were uncovered when excavations took place in preparation for the apartment block-The Rockwell-to be built at the west end of the city. Archival records indicate that it had been a burial ground for "slaves and paupers" dating back to the eighteenth century. They were the wretched of this part of the earth: the violently enslaved, the displaced until death, the Indigenous laboring poor-all those governed by this colonial city's necropolitical system, which literally worked them to the bone.
  • Publisher: London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: EISSN: 2058-5462
  • Source: Freely Accessible Arts & Humanities Journals
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