Frontier Mail: The Liberal Subject and the Post Office in South African History
This essay brings postal history and postcolonial theory into an encounter, considering the history of the Post Office in South Africa, stretching from its emergence under Dutch rule at the Cape. Turning to postal history reread under the sway of postcolonial theory may enable a rethinking of aparth...
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| Language: | English |
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University of the Western Cape, Centre for Humanities Research and the History Department
2021-01-01
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| Series: | Kronos |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-01902021000100003&tlng=en |