Commemorating and forgetting : challenges for the new South Africa /

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Author / Creator: Murray, Martin J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
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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.