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
Autor principal: Murray, Martin J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social change > Psychological aspects.
Public history.
Political culture.
Historiography.
Collective memory.
ARCHITECTURE > General.
HISTORY > Africa > South > Republic of South Africa.
HISTORY > Africa > South > General.
Histoire appliquee > Afrique du Sud.
Memoire collective > Afrique du Sud.
Political culture > South Africa.
Public history > South Africa.
Collective memory > South Africa.
South Africa.
South Africa > Historiography.
Electronic books.
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 (320 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781452939568

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