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Commemorating and Forgetting : Challenges for the New South Africa.

Authors	*Murray, Martin J.

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Links to the text	Library Off-campus access			OB00013443		Proquest Ebook Central (電子ブック) / 同時アクセス数1	9781452939568

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Size	1 online resource (320 pages)
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Notes	Commemorating and Forgetting: Challenges for the New South Africa -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Memory and Amnesia after Apartheid -- Chapter 1: The Power of Collective Memory -- Chapter 2: White Lies: Mythmaking and Social Memory in the Service of White Minority Rule -- Chapter 3: Facing Backward, Looking Forward: The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting -- Chapter 4: Collective Memory in Place: The Voortrekker Monument and the Hector Pieterson Memorial -- Chapter 5: Haunted Heritage: Visual Display at District Six and Robben Island -- Chapter 6: Makeshift Memorials: Marking Time with Vernacular Remembrance -- Chapter 7: Textual Memories: Autobiographical Writing in a Time of Uncertainty -- Epilogue: History and Heritage -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. 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? The new South Africa's confrontation of this dilemma is Martin J. Murray's subject in Commemorating and Forgetting. More broadly, this book explores how collective memory works-how framing events, persons, and places worthy of recognition and honor entails a selective appropriation of the past, not a mastery of history.How is the historical past made to appear in the present? In addressing these questions, Murray reveals how collective memory is stored and disseminated in architecture, statuary, monuments and memorials, literature, and art-"landscapes of remembrance" that selectively recall and even fabricate history in the service of nation-building. He examines such vehicles of memory in postapartheid South Africa and parses the stories they tell-stories by turn sanitized, distorted, embellished, and compressed. In this analysis, Commemorating and Forgetting marks a critical move toward recognizing how the legacies and impositions of white minority rule, far from being truly past, remain embedded in, intertwined with, and imprinted on the new nation's here and now. Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Subjects	LCSH:Collective memory -- South Africa. All Subject Search LCSH:Political culture -- South Africa. All Subject Search LCSH:Public history -- South Africa. All Subject Search LCSH:Social change -- Psychological aspects. All Subject Search LCSH:South Africa -- Historiography. All Subject Search
Language	English
ID	8000013327
ISBN	9781452939568