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Representations of Sawoti in My Family's Photographic Archives.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Representations of Sawoti in My Family's Photographic Archives./
作者:	Chetty, Kate'Lyn Ruby.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
面頁冊數:	84 p.
附註:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 83-07.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International83-07.
標題:	Weddings. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28854638
ISBN:	9798759930143

Representations of Sawoti in My Family's Photographic Archives.
Chetty, Kate'Lyn Ruby.

Representations of Sawoti in My Family's Photographic Archives. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 84 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 83-07.

Thesis (M.Tech.)--University of Johannesburg (South Africa), 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

To reach the farm in Sawoti that previously belonged to the Sivpersad family one must be prepared for a 20-minute drive down a gravel road winding between hills and valleys, past a temple and over a narrow path that runs through the river. When I inquired about the formal name of the river, members of my family could not provide a proper name for it. One of my uncles speculates that it may be a branch of the Ncazuka River. However, in this study I refer to it as the Sawoti river, as this is the name given to it by members of my family. Sawoti is regarded as a place of peace by my family; indeed, I will argue, for many generations it was seen as 'a place away' in contrast to the strife of city life. For me, travelling down the path to Sawoti evokes a sense of harmony that I associate with the family farm. In turn, this creates a sense of nostalgia. The route reminds me of a now-lost photograph that my parents took of me as an infant. Although this image of me playing in the river was mislaid when my parents divorced, in the course of my studies I was able to imagine and reconstruct what the river looked like, and at which point I would have played in it. Travelling through the valleys during June 2019, I imagined what it would have been like for my great-great-grandparents as they made their descent down the long and winding path for the first time.In her publication, The Need for Roots, Simone Weil has observed that, "[t]o be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognised need of the human soul" (Weil 2002:41). The notion of rootedness and being rooted, as well as the need to find a place of belonging, has been an important part of my early adult years. Being recognised as part of the familial structure is, to me, synonymous with having a sense of belonging. In my quest to understand the term 'belonging', and to understand my family's notions of it, I make artworks. In doing so, I utilise photographs that capture their interactions with the Sawoti landscape, where my family was settled for many years. In my artworks I relate certain physical features of the Sawoti landscape to selected stories that I have deemed important to my family and their time on the family farm.I am a fourth-generation South African Indian whose identity has been shaped in significant ways, by both the history of Indian indentured labour in this country and by apartheid. From 1860, Indian migrants arrived here from India as indentured labourers. The import of indentured labourers from India came to an end in 1911. After indenture ended , both my maternal and paternal families left the farms where they worked as labourers to take up residence in Sawoti, an area 91 kilometres from Durban, in the south of the province now known as KwaZulu-Natal.3 My family's adoption of South Africa as their new home is rooted in their shared involvement in the construction of a temple at Sawoti.

ISBN: 9798759930143Subjects--Topical Terms:

3682388
Weddings.

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