O’Connell, Siona2017-03-292017-04Siona O’Connell (2017) The Spring Queen pageant and the postapartheid archive, Safundi, 18:2, 168-176, DOI: 10.1080/17533171.2016.1272239.1753-3171 (print)1543-1304 (online)10.1080/17533171.2016.1272239http://hdl.handle.net/2263/59563This paper considers how an archive of the "Spring Queen" pageant of clothing and textile workers of the Cape Flats of Cape Town can be examined for insights into the past and present lives of those oppressed by apartheid. It considers further the idea of the ordinary archive and peripheral narratives as entrypoints into how we may yet understand self-representation and freedom in post-apartheid South Africa.en© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an electronic version of an article published in Safundi : The Journal of South African and American Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 168-176, 2017. doi : 10.1080/17533171.2016.1272239. Safundi : The Journal of South African and American Studies is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rsaf20.ApartheidArchiveFreedomCape FlatsRepresentationTextile industryFashionPerformancePostprint Article