Artforum, April 1st, 2005
AFRICAN QUEEN Michael Pye on Dan Sleigh ISLANDS BY DAN SLEIGH TRANSLATED BY ANDRÉ BRINK NEW YORK: HARCOURT. 768 PAGES. $30.
When South Africans write history, she is simply "famous Eva"; the rest of us hardly know her name. She was the very first victim of the Dutch when they planted their colony at the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-1600s. A woman of the Khoikhoi peoples who followed and tended cattle through the lush Cape valleys, she chose to join up with the European newcomers, learn their language, wear their clothes, be baptized in their church, and marry their surgeon. All her papers we...
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