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Discursive constructions of “colouredness” and memory in food-and-memory cookbooks and memes
Thesis (DPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2025.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/134791 Discursive constructions of “colouredness” and memory in food-and-memory cookbooks and memes Roman, Samantha Oostendorp, M. Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of General Linguistics. Sociolinguistics -- South Africa Colored people (South Africa) -- Ethnic identity Language and culture -- South Africa Food -- Social aspects -- South Africa Collective memory -- South Africa Discourse analysis -- Social aspects -- South Africa UCTD Thesis (DPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2025. Roman, S. 2025. Discursive constructions of “colouredness” and memory in food-and-memory cookbooks and memes. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University [online]. Available: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/items/b2c4fbe9-5ad0-4f92-9292-65db3fb64ac7 ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation examines how coloured identity is discursively constructed in post-apartheid South Africa, analysing the intersections and entanglements of food, language, place, and memory. It explores how semiotic resources, such as visual images, humour and narratives, are assembled to construct, negotiate and contest colouredness. Using Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA) and Multimodal Discourse Analysis (MDA), this research examines data from two food and memory cookbooks: Bo-Kaap Kitchen and District Six Huiskombuis, and a collection of digitally sourced food memes from the Vannie Kaap Facebook page. This research study considered these data sources as valuable cultural texts that reflect, contest, and reproduce everyday identity performances, and as sites that reveal cultural standards, shared memory, and a sense of belonging. This analysis draws on entangled theoretical frameworks that bring together sociolinguistic theory, black geographies (McKittrick, 2006), Critical Race Theory (CRT), entanglement theory (Nuttall, 2009), and semiotics of memory (Salerno, 2021). These frameworks are drawn upon to explore the complex, intricate, and tangled relationship between language and identity, as they are intertwined and tangled with history, food, memory, and place. This research study analyses how identity is simultaneously racialised, spatialised, remembered and embodied through food-related knowledge systems and practices, and linguistic performances. The findings indicate that the performance of food-related practices not only serves as a means of survival but also indexes food-based knowledge systems, histories of displacement, the transmission of intergenerational knowledge, and a search for authentic colouredness. These food-related performances act as expressions of pride, resilience, resistance and care. By analysing both data sources, this study confirms earlier research that recognises cookbooks as important data sites. Moreover, it also emphasises memes as potential records of agency, history, identity, memory, and place-making. Building on these insights and theoretical contributions, this dissertation presents the concept of ‘practices of sufficiency’ as developed through this research study. This concept highlights how racialised identities are shaped and influenced by everyday food-related knowledge systems necessary for the survival of not only the body, but also oppressive spaces, cultural continuity and memory. Practices of sufficiency encompass actions of food sustainability, instead viewing it as a social and semiotic device through which memory, language, identity, and care are performed and transmitted. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Geen opsomming beskikbaar. Doctoral 2026-01-08T06:47:17Z 2026-01-08T06:47:17Z 2025-12 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/134791 en Stellenbosch University xii, 244 pages : illustrations, includes annexures application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Sociolinguistics -- South Africa Colored people (South Africa) -- Ethnic identity Language and culture -- South Africa Food -- Social aspects -- South Africa Collective memory -- South Africa Discourse analysis -- Social aspects -- South Africa UCTD Roman, Samantha Discursive constructions of “colouredness” and memory in food-and-memory cookbooks and memes |
| title | Discursive constructions of “colouredness” and memory in food-and-memory cookbooks and memes |
| title_full | Discursive constructions of “colouredness” and memory in food-and-memory cookbooks and memes |
| title_fullStr | Discursive constructions of “colouredness” and memory in food-and-memory cookbooks and memes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Discursive constructions of “colouredness” and memory in food-and-memory cookbooks and memes |
| title_short | Discursive constructions of “colouredness” and memory in food-and-memory cookbooks and memes |
| title_sort | discursive constructions of colouredness and memory in food and memory cookbooks and memes |
| topic | Sociolinguistics -- South Africa Colored people (South Africa) -- Ethnic identity Language and culture -- South Africa Food -- Social aspects -- South Africa Collective memory -- South Africa Discourse analysis -- Social aspects -- South Africa UCTD |
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