Commemorating and Forgetting Challenges for the New South Africa / [Recurso electrónico] :
Martin J. Murray.
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
- 1 online resource (pages cm.)
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Libro Electrónico
9781452939568 145293956X
Social change--Psychological aspects. Political culture--South Africa. Public history--South Africa. Collective memory--South Africa.