An art that obscures: Baderoon regarding Muslims
Abstract
[BOOK REVIEW]
Baderoon, Gabeba (2015)
Regarding Muslims: From slavery to post-apartheid.
Johannesburg: Wits University Press (2014).
ISBN 978-1-86814-769-4 pbk.
Pages xix + 207
“Praise be to God for making us forget”. These words, uttered by a White Helmets volunteer in Syria, is echoed in Gabeba Baderoon densely-layered Regarding Muslims in two ways. The shame of sexual violence and miscegenation associated with slavery at the Cape has led – and here Baderoon quotes Zoë Wicomb – to a “total erasure of slavery from folk memory” (p 88). But in a less salutary way, this forgetfulness is also characteristic of those who were the major beneficiaries of this institution. Colonists wished to forget slavery, and their representation of Cape Muslims – “Malays” – played a critical role in this forgetting. This is one of the main arguments that emerge from Baderoon’s book.
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