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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Murray, Martin J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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