Becoming worthy ancestors : archive, public deliberations and identity in South Africa /

Why does it matter that nations should care for their archives, and that they should develop a sense of shared identity? And why should these processes take place in the public domain? How can nations possibly speak about a shared sense of identity in pluralistic societies where individuals and grou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mangcu, Xolela, 1966- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Collective memory > South Africa.
Identity politics > South Africa.
Civil rights movements > South Africa.
Mémoire collective > Afrique du Sud.
Politique identitaire > Afrique du Sud.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Afrique du Sud.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Civil rights movements
Collective memory
Identity politics
Race relations
South Africa > Race relations.
Afrique du Sud > Relations raciales.
South Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter One: Evidentiary Genocide: Intersections of Race, Power and the Archive; Memory, power and nation building; The collusion of the media; The rise and fall of black consciousness; The costs of forgetting: identity and development in the new era; Speaking the truth, publicly; Chapter Two: The Transmission Lines of the New African Movement; The new african movement and its beginnings: from soga to mqhayi to seme; Newspapers and public intellectuals; RV selope thema and the new african movement.
  • The cultural modernity of hie dhlomoDhlomo on bw vilakazi; The political modernity of rubusana, jabavu and zk matthews; Chapter Three: Some Do Contest the Assertion That I Am An African; Racial identity and the invention of history; Civil society and social order; Chapter Four: Africa in Europe, Egypt in Greece; African language families; Afroasiatic languages; Ancient egyptian as mixed language; Ancient greek as a mixed language; Examples of egyptian etymologies for greek words; Names of the gods; Conclusion.
  • Chapter Five: Unconquered and Insubordinate: Embracing Black Feminist Intellectual Activist LegaciesEarly black women intellectual activists; Black women's autobiographies; Embattlement continuities; Conclusions; Chapter Six: Identity, Politics and the Archive; Accounts of identity; Ethical and moral dimensions of identity; The state and the politics of recognition; When identity means getting the short end of the stick; The political creation of the pre-modern archive; The archive and the making of the nation state; The archive that remains to be written in south africa.
  • Chapter Seven: The Goodness of NationsThe origins of nationalism; Three qualities of goodness; The incest taboo; The emancipatory power of national rights; Chapter Eight: Why Archive Matters: Archive, Public Deliberation and Citizenship; Introduction; Archive, archives and the archive; Reconciliation; Development; Identity politics and social cohesion; Archive, subjectivity and the other spaces of debate; Political futures and the engaging of archive; Endnotes; Index.

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