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| I proposed to him and several coworkers in the know that we set up a local "support network," a cordon sanitaire, a group of people who would keep an eye on Tony and of whom he would always be conscious. The colonial Zimbabwean landscape, as captured by the European gaze, was littered with diseased, dirty and polluted Africans, a portrait that rationalized the apartheid-style cordon sanitaire erected by the white settlers against the alleged social, moral and hygienic threat posed by the colonized Other. The terms of the commission for this book (his first) obviously tied his hands, his references curtailed by a cordon sanitaire thrown around the privacy of la maison Hodgkin. |
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