Commemorating and forgetting : challenges for the new South Africa /

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When the past is painful, as riddled with violence and injustice as it is in postapartheid South Africa, remembrance presents a problem at once practical and ethical: how much of the past to preserve and recollect and how much to erase and forget if the new nation is to ever unify and move forward?...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Murray, Martin J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Temas:
Collective memory > South Africa.
Public history > South Africa.
Political culture > South Africa.
Social change > Psychological aspects.
Mémoire collective > Afrique du Sud.
Histoire appliquée > Afrique du Sud.
HISTORY > Africa > South > General.
HISTORY > Africa > South > Republic of South Africa.
ARCHITECTURE > General.
Collective memory
Historiography
Political culture
Public history
Social change > Psychological aspects
South Africa > Historiography.
South Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:When the past is painful, as riddled with violence and injustice as it is in postapartheid South Africa, remembrance presents a problem at once practical and ethical: how much of the past to preserve and recollect and how much to erase and forget if the new nation is to ever unify and move forward? The new South Africa's confrontation of this dilemma is the subject of this book. More broadly, this book explores how collective memory works-how framing events, persons, and places worthy of recognition and honor entails a selective appropriation of the past, not a mastery of history.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 305 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781452939568
145293956X
9781452948607
1452948607

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