Illegible Will: Coercive Spectacles of Labor in South Africa and the Diaspora
- Author
- Hershini Bhana Young
- Content
- x + 270 pp., ill., bibl., index
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Durham, NC: Duke University Press
- Description
- Case studies of Tryntjie, a slave held at the Cape of Good Hope, and Andre Brink's novel The Rights of Desire, which features her; the Miss Landmine Angola beauty pageant; Sarah Baartman's performances in London; indentured and enslaved Indian plantation workers; Joice Heath, who was exhibited by P. T. Barnum; and Yvette Christianse's novel Unconfessed.
- Main subject
- Philosophy, Critical Theory, and Social Criticism
- ISBN
- 9780822363095 (cloth); 9780822363200 (pap.); 9780822373339 (ebook)
- Citation
- Young, Hershini Bhana. Illegible Will: Coercive Spectacles of Labor in South Africa and the Diaspora. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. Sylvia. Accessed April 24, 2024. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL186.
- Updated
- 12-02-2020