Coombes History after Apartheid

Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8492-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten

How should post-apartheid South Africa present its history - in museums, monuments, and parks.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coombes, Annie E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Annie E. Coombes teaches art history and cultural studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, where she is Director of Graduate Studies in the School of History of Art, Film, and Visual Media. She is the author of Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture, and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England and coeditor of Hybridity and Its Discontents: Politics, Science, Culture.