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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Memory and amnesia after apartheid
  • The power of collective memory
  • White lies : myth-making and social memory in the service of white minority rule
  • Facing backward, looking forward : the politics of remembering and forgetting
  • Collective memory in place : the Voortrekker Monument and the Hector Pieterson Memorial
  • Haunted heritage : visual display at District Six and Robben Island
  • Makeshift memorials : marking time with vernacular remembrance
  • Textual memories : autobiographical writing at a time of uncertainty
  • Epilogue : history and heritage.

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