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Any encounter with colonial archives leaves one deeply aware that the voices of the oppressed have been rendered mute. In this book, Zaayman delves into the archives associated with Krotoa and Anne Barnard, two women who lived in the Cape colony. Through them, she identifies the absolute absences that attend all archives, and names them âthe Anarchiveâ. This term signals irrecoverability and compels us to turn our attention towards the intangible ways in which the past lives with us in the present, away from the archive. Employing artistic methodologies to instantiate the Anarchive, Zaayman intimates the immense losses brought about by colonialism.
Carine Zaayman is a researcher and research coordinator at the Research Centre for Material Culture at the Wereldmuseum in the Netherlands. Her work focuses on the afterlives of slavery and colonialism, particularly in the Cape, in projects such as Under Cover of Darkness, and as co-author of the Slavery Heritage Guide of the Cape (2025) with Nancy Jouwe.
Scholars, students and artists attentive to the dynamics of representation, and anyone interested in (Dutch) colonial history and its afterlives, could find this book of value. Keywords: Anarchive, Cape colony, Cape Town, South Africa, Khoekhoe, colonialism, Krotoa, Lady Anne Barnard, archives, VOC, photography, art, creative practice, history, figuration, post-apartheid, postcolonialism, Apartheid.