Impossible Return: Cape Towns Forced Removals - Siona O`Connell & David Brown

Impossible Return: Cape Town's Forced Removals

Siona O'Connell

Dr Siona OConnell uses David Brown's photographs of the Harfield Village community pre- and during forced removals as a starting point to investigate questions around trauma, memory and freedom after apartheid. The book features Browns photographs alongside narrative chapters detailing the experiences of families forcibly removed from Harfield. Brown's 1972 images are counterbalanced by photographs of some of the Harfield residents taken today by Capetonian anti-apartheid photographer Zubeida Vallie.

"Anger, hurt, loss, rejection ... these feelings are familiar to the families who, in the early 1970s, were forced from their homes in Harfield Village in Cape Town's southern suburbs. Siona O'Connell brings their stories to light. She examines the lost ways of life, the sense of home and belonging experienced by these families. David Brown's images show what life was like in Harfield before the removal, and his images are echoed by recent photos of the same former residents.

Binding: Soft cover.

Book Condition: Good

Edition: Kwela Books, 2019

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