Title:
Negotiating the past : the making of memory in South Africa
Author:
Nuttall, Sarah.
ISBN:
9780195715033
Publication Information:
Cape Town : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Physical Description:
xii, 300 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
pt. I. Truth, memory, and narrative. Memory, metaphor, and the triumph of narrative / Njabulo Ndebele ; Stories of history : reimagining the past in post-apartheid narrative / Andrâe Brink ; Forgiving and forgetting : the Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Anthony Holiday ; Cracked heirlooms : memory on exhibition / Ingrid de Kok -- pt. II. The remembered self. Telling 'free' stories? Memory and democracy in South African autobiography since 1994 / Sarah Nuttall ; Orality, memory, and social history in South Africa / Gary Minkley and Ciraj Rassool ; Memory and history in William Kentridge's History of the main complaint / Michael Godby ; Krotoèa remembered : a mother of unity, a mother of sorrows? / Carli Coetzee ; Silence in my father's house : memory, nationalism, and narratives of the body / Steven Robins -- pt. III. Museums, memorials, and public money. Museums and the reshaping of memory / Patricia Davison ; Remembering the tragedy, constructing modernity : Robben Island as a national monument / Harriet Deacon ; Earth and stone : archaeology as memory / Martin Hall ; Commemorating, suppressing, and invoking Cape slavery / Kerry Ward and Nigel Worden -- pt. IV. Ads and amnesia : black advertising in the new South Africa / Eve Bertlesen ; African languages as European scripts : the shaping of communal memory / Sinfree Makoni ; The constitutional entrenchment of memory / Eduard Fagan.
Electronic Access:
Book review (H-Net) http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0b4m8-aaPublisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0604/98163568-d.html