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VADELL COSIN, Maximiliano. How to read?: oriented analysis towards the use of literary elements in historical research. Rev. Esc. Hist. [online]. 2021, vol.20, n.1, pp.00-00. ISSN 1669-9041.

Before the discovery of diamond and gold deposits, the territory of present-day South Africa had less objective importance, strictly geostrategic for the British Empire. The colonizing thrust for much of the nineteenth century was exercised predominantly by religious missions, whose objective was not so much in the incorporation of the territory into imperial rule as in the salvation of the souls of the natives from the learning of a certain Christian and Western habit. My ongoing research is about the relationships that missionaries and natives established in the asymmetrical framework of the daily life of the Lovedale mission in the Eastern Cape. The analyzed period begins in 1880, when a series of reforms produced changes in native education; and concludes with the Peace of Vereeniging (1902), which closes missionary dreams of possible beyond-the-race equality by forming a white bloc in power. The following article, however, is about visiting readings that can be a trigger to think about the problem of coloniality from angles that the sources do not allow us to see in a transparent way. I propose, accordingly, a reading of elements of postcolonial theory; Freudian Marxism and literature (exemplified in the work of J.M. Coetzee) with the aim of bringing up the problems presented by these authors and thus advance in the construction of critical knowledge about the history of the nineteenth-century colonization of the African continent.

Palabras clave : Postcolonial theory; J.M. Coetzee; Leon Rozitchner; Coloniality.

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