The Resource Commemorating and forgetting : challenges for the new South Africa, Martin J. Murray
Commemorating and forgetting : challenges for the new South Africa, Martin J. Murray
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- Summary
- 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 appropriatio
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 305 pages)
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9781452939568
- Label
- Commemorating and forgetting : challenges for the new South Africa
- Title
- Commemorating and forgetting
- Title remainder
- challenges for the new South Africa
- Statement of responsibility
- Martin J. Murray
- Subject
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- Collective memory -- South Africa
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- HISTORY -- Africa -- South | General
- HISTORY -- Africa -- South | Republic of South Africa
- Historiography
- Political culture
- Political culture -- South Africa
- ARCHITECTURE -- General
- Public history -- South Africa
- Social change -- Psychological aspects
- Social change -- Psychological aspects
- South Africa
- South Africa -- Historiography
- Public history
- Collective memory
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 appropriatio
- Cataloging source
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- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Murray, Martin J
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- South Africa
- Collective memory
- Public history
- Political culture
- Social change
- HISTORY
- HISTORY
- ARCHITECTURE
- Collective memory
- Historiography
- Political culture
- Public history
- Social change
- South Africa
- Label
- Commemorating and forgetting : challenges for the new South Africa, Martin J. Murray
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
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- multicolored
- Content category
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- 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
- Control code
- ocn846492806
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 305 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781452939568
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt2xzbv0
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)846492806
- Label
- Commemorating and forgetting : challenges for the new South Africa, Martin J. Murray
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocn846492806
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 305 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781452939568
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt2xzbv0
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)846492806
Subject
- Collective memory -- South Africa
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- HISTORY -- Africa -- South | General
- HISTORY -- Africa -- South | Republic of South Africa
- Historiography
- Political culture
- Political culture -- South Africa
- ARCHITECTURE -- General
- Public history -- South Africa
- Social change -- Psychological aspects
- Social change -- Psychological aspects
- South Africa
- South Africa -- Historiography
- Public history
- Collective memory
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