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.
Young, Hershini Bhana. Illegible Will: Coercive Spectacles of Labor in South Africa and the Diaspora. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. Sylvia. Accessed May 9, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL186.
