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

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...

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Main Authors: Hlongwane, Ali Khangela (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Ndlovu, Sifiso Mxolisi (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:African Histories and Modernities
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • 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.