Commemorating and forgetting
Murray, Martin J.
Commemorating and forgetting challenges for the new South Africa / [electronic resource] : Martin J. Murray. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm.)
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.
9781452939568 145293956X
Social change--Psychological aspects.
Political culture--South Africa.
Public history--South Africa.
Collective memory--South Africa.
South Africa--Historiography.
Electronic books.
DT1971 / .M87 2013
968.06/5072
Commemorating and forgetting challenges for the new South Africa / [electronic resource] : Martin J. Murray. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm.)
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.
9781452939568 145293956X
Social change--Psychological aspects.
Political culture--South Africa.
Public history--South Africa.
Collective memory--South Africa.
South Africa--Historiography.
Electronic books.
DT1971 / .M87 2013
968.06/5072