Baas: Fictioning Namibia as a Space of Desire

Modern-day Namibian history has largely been shaped by three major eras: German colonial rule, South African apartheid occupation, and the Liberation Struggle. It was, however, not only military conquest that laid the cornerstone for the colony, but also how the colony was imagined, the �dream� of this colony. As a tool of discursive worldmaking, literature has played a major role in providing a f...