Commemorating and Forgetting: Challenges for the New South Africa Contributor(s): Murray, Martin J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 081668300X ISBN-13: 9780816683000 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $27.72 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Architecture - History | Africa - South - Republic Of South Africa |
Dewey: 968.065 |
LCCN: 2013010195 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.80 lbs) 320 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Southern Africa |
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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. |