Oral History, Community, and Displacement: Imagining Memories in Post-Apartheid South Africa

✍ Scribed by Sean Field (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 230
Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction: Imagining Memories....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-22
Remembering Experience, Interpreting Memory....Pages 23-36
Fragile Identities....Pages 37-51
From the “Peaceful Past” to the “Violent Present”....Pages 53-67
Disappointed Men....Pages 69-79
Front Matter....Pages 81-85
Imagining Communities....Pages 87-100
Sites of Memory in Langa....Pages 101-116
“There Your Memory Runs Like a Camera Back”....Pages 117-132
“Others Killed in My Eyes”....Pages 133-145
Front Matter....Pages 147-152
Beyond “Healing”....Pages 153-164
Disappointed Imaginings....Pages 165-177
Back Matter....Pages 179-221

✦ Subjects

Cultural History; African History; African Politics; Social History; Oral History; Modern History

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