Public history and culture in South Africa : memorialisation and liberation heritage sites in Johannesburg and the township space / Ali Khangela Hlongwane, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hlongwane, Ali Khangela, author.

Ndlovu, Sifiso Mxolisi, author.

Series:

African histories and modernities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apartheid.

Public history.

Cultural property.

Museums.

Memorials.

Historic sites.

Johannesburg (South Africa)--History.

Johannesburg (South Africa).

Historic sites--South Africa--Johannesburg.

Memorials--South Africa--Johannesburg.

Museums--South Africa--Johannesburg.

Cultural property--South Africa--Johannesburg.

Public history--South Africa--Johannesburg.

Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg.

South Africa.

South Africa--Johannesburg.

Physical Description:

xix, 282 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

Summary:

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 questions of power, liberation and public history in the making and remaking of the South African nation. Ali Khangela Hlongwane and Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu analyse an array of these liberation heritage sites, including the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, the June 16, 1976 Interpretation Centre, the Apartheid Museum and the Mandela House Museum, foregrounding the work of migrant workers, architects, visual artists and activists in the practice of memorialisation. As they argue, memorialisation has been integral to the process of state and nation formation from the pre-colonial era through the present day.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783030147488

3030147487

OCLC:

1099842738