Illegible Will: Coercive Spectacles of Labor in South Africa and the Diaspora

Illegible Will: Coercive Spectacles of Labor in South Africa and the DiasporaIn Illegible Will Hershini Bhana Young engages with the archive of South African and black diasporic performance to examine the absence of black women's will from that archive. Young argues for that will's illegibility, given the paucity of materials outlining the agency of black historical subjects. Drawing on court documents, novels, photographs, historical records, websites, and descriptions of music and dance, Young shows how black will can be

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