Public History and Culture in South Africa Memorialisation and Liberation Heritage Sites in Johannesburg and the Township Space /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Hlongwane, Ali Khangela (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Ndlovu, Sifiso Mxolisi (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: African Histories and Modernities
• Θέματα: Africa-History.; Historiography.; Civilization-History.; Ethnology-Africa.; Cultural heritage.; African History.; Memory Studies.; Cultural History.; African Culture.; Cultural Heritage.

The post-apartheid era in South Africa has, in the space of nearly two decades, experienced a massive memory boom, manifest in a plethora of new memorials and museums and in the renaming of streets, buildings, cities and more across the country. This memorialisation is intricately linked to question...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Worker history in the post-apartheid memory/heritage complex: Public art and the Workers' Museum in Newtown, Johannesburg
• 3. Remembering Sharpeville Day and fashioning national narratives: The Human Rights Precinct and the Langa Memorial
• 4. The historical and cultural significance of the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum as a liberation heritage site
• 5. Weaving stories, memories, public history, visual art and place: The June 16, 1976 Interpretation Centre, Central Western Jabavu, Soweto
• 6. Autobiographic memories of society and the June 1976 uprising
• 7. Traces, spaces and archives, intersecting with memories, liberation histories and storytelling: The Apartheid Museum and Nelson Mandela House Museum
• 8. Concluding remarks: A snippet on voices still crying to be heard.