Annie E Coombes

History After Apartheid

Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

"Exquisitely detailed, ethically engaged, theoretically consequential, this book will delight readers across a wide spectrum of the humanities and social sciences. Annie E. Coombes captures the complexities of contemporary South Africa via an intriguing analysis of the country's public culture. The South African case studies become portable and are intelligently linked to global debates in this highly readable study."--Isabel Hofmeyr, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780822330721
• ISBN-10: 0822330725
• Artikelnr.: 21104985

Autorenporträt

Annie E. Coombes

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xiii
List of Abbreviations xvii
Introduction: Making History Memorable 1
1. Translating the Past: Apartheid Moments in Postapartheid South Africa 19
2. Robben Island: Site of Memory/Site of Nation 54
3. District Six: The Archaeology of Memory 116
4. New Histories for Old: Museological Strategies 149
5. What's in a Name? The Place of "Ethnicity" in the "New" South Africa 206
6. New Subjectivities for the New Nation 243
Epilogue: Changing Places 279
Notes 297
Bibliography 339
Index 355