Identity and difference: a postcolonial analysis of Cape Malay as depicted in the literary texts from selected South African writers

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dc.contributor.advisorSmith, Susanen
dc.contributor.authorChaudhari, Shamiegaen
dc.date.accessioned2026-08-20T15:06:59Z
dc.date.available2026-08-20T15:06:59Z
dc.date.issued2009-11en
dc.description.abstractThe identity of the Cape Malay is usually reduced to the submissive, the comic and the exotic dishes such as bobotie, curry and samosas. Terms like "slams","slaamaaier" and "halfnaatjie" (Roos 2003:3) were just a few of the derogatory names that was awarded to the Cape Malay. Many of these terms and identity constructions are in the South African literature immortalized. The true history, the struggle, tears and sacrifices of this community slipped by unnoticed and in silence. And today, after all this suffering, they become identity is called into question and this identity is referred to as a controversial identity. In the Western Cape this identity mainly centered around being Malay, being Coloured, Being Cape Muslim or Black Muslim. It seems as if the Cape Malay is in an intermediate identity (defined in English as "inbetweenness") are trapped, defined by their "Muslimness","Cape-ness", "Malay-ness" and "Coloured-ness". This dissertation examines the controversy of the Cape Malay identity and focus specifically on identity construction and Otherness. It emphasizes certain characteristics that people divided due to certain character traits that are different from the norm and therefore cause that they are considered the Other. The study is undertaken with the aim of establishing the authenticity of the Cape Malay identity state and how it is depicted in the works of selected South African writers. It intends to look specifically at the construction of identity through Otherness during the colonial period in Southern Africa as well as how these identities were implemented, rejected or accepted is.,Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2009en
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dc.identifier.citationChaudhari, Shamiega. 2009-11en
dc.identifier.othervital:64143en
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11837/5028
dc.language.isoAfrikaansen
dc.publisherUniversity of Fort Hareen
dc.publisherFaculty of Social Sciences and Humanitiesen
dc.rightsUniversity of Fort Hareen
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserveden
dc.rightsOpen Accessen
dc.subjectPostcolonialismen
dc.subjectOrientalismen
dc.subjectGrahamstown (South Africa)en
dc.subjectEastern Cape (South Africa)en
dc.subjectSouth Africaen
dc.subjectHistoryen
dc.titleIdentity and difference: a postcolonial analysis of Cape Malay as depicted in the literary texts from selected South African writersen
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