This collection of essays by South African academics looks at the ways the country is dealing with its past, a complex mixture of colonialism, slavery, apartheid, struggle, and guilt. The emphasis is on how that past is being perceived and molded in the post-apartheid era.
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`Nuttall and Coetzees book is an excellent beginning to the dynamic area of public memory and representation in South Africa.' Sean Field, African History, Vol.41, 2000.
`an explicitly useful book for all who consider the issue of social memory important in the construction of reality.' JL, Jnl of Peace Research, Vol.37, 2000, No.4.
`The book bravely crosses the disciplinary ghettos of the academy.' Sean Field, African History, Vol.41, 2000.
`an explicitly useful book for all who consider the issue of social memory important in the construction of reality.' JL, Jnl of Peace Research, Vol.37, 2000, No.4.
`The book bravely crosses the disciplinary ghettos of the academy.' Sean Field, African History, Vol.41, 2000.
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Sarah Nuttal is at University of Stellenbosch. Carli Coetzee is at University of Cape Town.
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WHEN IT WAS ANNOUNCED RECENTLY that a group of former police generals of the old South African Police were going to apply for amnesty, I thought to myself that a new chapter had opened in the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, Cape Town, District Six, Cape Times, Kas Maine, National Party, United States, Dutch East India Company, History of the Main Complaint, Nelson Mandela, Western Cape, Kagga Kamma, Soho Eckstein, Sir George Grey, Table Bay, Weekend Argus, Table Mountain, African National Congress, Alias Grace, Grace Marks, Holocaust Museum, Lucy Lloyd, Mayibuye Centre, The Seed Is Mine, Cape Dutch New!
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WHEN IT WAS ANNOUNCED RECENTLY that a group of former police generals of the old South African Police were going to apply for amnesty, I thought to myself that a new chapter had opened in the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, Cape Town, District Six, Cape Times, Kas Maine, National Party, United States, Dutch East India Company, History of the Main Complaint, Nelson Mandela, Western Cape, Kagga Kamma, Soho Eckstein, Sir George Grey, Table Bay, Weekend Argus, Table Mountain, African National Congress, Alias Grace, Grace Marks, Holocaust Museum, Lucy Lloyd, Mayibuye Centre, The Seed Is Mine, Cape Dutch New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985 by Charles van Onselen on 7 pages
- Alias Grace: A Novel by Margaret Atwood on 5 pages
- Imaginings of Sand by Andre Brink on 4 pages
- Story & History by William Ray on page 37, and Back Matter
- Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century by John Bodnar in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Refiguring the Archive by Carolyn Hamilton on page 85, page 149, and Back Matter
- Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition by Sidonie Smith in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition by Sidonie Smith in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Shattered Voices: Language, Violence, and the Work of Truth Commissions (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights) by Teresa Godwin Phelps in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Introducing Sociolinguistics by Rajend Mesthrie in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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