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Question: OPTION 1: WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS In Part V, towards the end of Waiting for the Barbarians, the Magistrate and narrator says: “For I was not, as I liked to think, the indulgent pleasure loving opposite of the cold rigid Colonel. I was the lie that Empire tells itself when times are easy, he the truth that Empire tells itself when harsh winds blow. Two sides of imperial rule”. Write a response in which you trace how and why the Magistrate comes to this moment of self-a...

Question: Unconfessed by Yvette Christiansë can be understood as a Black counternarrative – these are creatively critical and critically creative interventions that “disrupt the fictions of master narratives” (Jehan Robers 2019). Sila van de Kaap, according to Yvette Christiansë, “remains largely unknowable, the bearer of unbearable knowledge, the keeper of secrets” within the Cape Archive (14). Through her creative, theoretical and methodological writing, Yvette Christiansë demons...

Question: ead the quote below from Laurent Dubois’ piece “Atlantic Freedoms”: “At the basis of every work of history is a question of positioning. This is also, on some level, an ethical question. Whose history are you telling? And from whose perspective? As the Haitian thinker Jean Casimir likes to put it, when you write the story of Columbus arriving in what the indigenous people then called Ayiti, you have to make a decision: are you on the boat or on the shore?” Place the...