Title :

The Legacy of a Troubled Past.
Commemorative Politics in South Africa in the 21st Century.

Author(s) :

Cros, Bernard [Directeur scientifique]
Transferts critiques anglophones [TransCrit]
Rogez, Mathilde [Directeur scientifique]
Cultures anglo-saxonnes [CAS]
Teulié, Gilles [Directeur scientifique]
Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone [LERMA]
Marschall, Sabine [Auteur]
University of KwaZulu-Natal [Durban, Afrique du Sud] [UKZN]
Robles, Fanny [Auteur]
Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone [LERMA]
Aix Marseille Université [AMU]
Schmahmann, Brenda [Auteur]
Joseph-Vilain, Mélanie [Auteur]
Centre Interlangues : texte, image, langage [Dijon] [TIL]
McCann, Fiona [Auteur]
Centre d'Études en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères - ULR 4074 [CECILLE]
Université de Lille
Perrot, Cécile [Auteur]
Anglophonie : Communautés, Ecritures [ACE ]
Baines, Gary [Auteur]
Rhodes University, Grahamstown
Poullennec, Annael Le [Auteur]

Publisher :

Presses universitaires de Provence
Liverpool University Press

Publication date :

2022-06-07

Number of pages :

208 p.

ISBN :

9791032003497

English keyword(s) :

South Africa
memory
postcolonialism
nation-building
postapartheid

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Art et histoire de l'art
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Héritage culturel et muséologie
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Science politique

English abstract : [en]

Since the advent of democracy in 1994, South Africa has been engaged in an unprecedented exercise of national soul-searching, torn between the need to lay to rest centuries of racial conflict and the desire to come to terms ...
Show more >Since the advent of democracy in 1994, South Africa has been engaged in an unprecedented exercise of national soul-searching, torn between the need to lay to rest centuries of racial conflict and the desire to come to terms with its traumatic history. This book asks whether the country has begun to turn the corner on the legacy of collective hurt. To do so it ranges in scope across 350 years of South African history, encompassing the struggle against the apartheid regime, the downfall of white supremacy, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the first 25 years of democracy, up to more recent movements, such as #RhodesMustFall, or the inquests into the 2012 Marikana massacre, that point to the persistence of traumatic memory in contemporary society. The authors assembled here set out to analyse the representation of such memory, how it has been woven into narratives, recorded, preserved and questioned, and how issues of individual and collective responsibility have been grafted onto it through the visual arts, literature, political discourse and public action. In focusing on memory along with its derived forms of memorialization, collective memory, nostalgia, or post-memory, our contributors pose a fundamental question: is South Africa finally coming to the end of the post-apartheid transition period? Do the decades of memory work on racial violence and repression examined here hold out hope for the nation to make peace with its past?Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Centre d'Études en Civilisations Langues et Lettres Étrangères (CECILLE) - ULR 4074

Source :

Harvested from HAL