Framing interior

Race, mobility and the image of home in South African modernity

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3635262
AutoresFernanda Pinto De Almeida (0000-0003-1506-9468, University of the Western Cape, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen41
Número3
Páginas461-481
Fecha de publicación2015-09-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Dynamics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0253-3952 • E-ISSN: 1940-7874
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02533952.2015.1103050
OpenAlexW2203866980
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas27

This paper explores the depiction of dwellings in order to locate the emergence of a particular framing of the interior in South Africa. I suggest that in the first half of the twentieth century, images of domestic spaces pointed both to racially distinct interiors and racialised forms of interiority. As an aesthetic technology of the late nineteenth century, photography aided in the production of visual motifs that fixed the appearance of race in a new way, and located such an appearance in particular places. The visual intertwining of race and place – designating racially proper and improper places – was instrumental to apartheid’s attempt to curtail racial mixing and unregulated mobility. In contrast with the imposed movement engendered by migrant labour, I suggest that the figure of the interior becomes a privileged standpoint from which to view the triumph of race as a form of fixity in modern South Africa

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Depiction · Modernity · Photography · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South African History and Culture