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Public History and Culture in South Africa: Memorialisation and Liberation
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Public History and Culture in South Africa: Memorialisation and Liberation Heritage Sites in Johannesburg and the Township Space Hardcover - 2019

by Hlongwane, Ali Khangela/ University of South Africa (Corporate Author)

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Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Hardcover. New. 304 pages. 8.27x5.83x1.26 inches.
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  • Title Public History and Culture in South Africa: Memorialisation and Liberation Heritage Sites in Johannesburg and the Township Space
  • Author Hlongwane, Ali Khangela/ University of South Africa (Corporate Author)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition New
  • Pages 282
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
  • Date 2019
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # x-3030147487
  • ISBN 9783030147488 / 3030147487
  • Weight 1.41 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.27 x 5.83 x 0.94 in (21.01 x 14.81 x 2.39 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: African
    • Ethnic Orientation: African
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.09

From the rear cover

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.

About the author

Ali Khangela Hlongwane is an honorary professor at the University of South Africa and a researcher at the University of Witwatersrand History Workshop. He has published chapters in the multi-volume The Road to Democracy in South Africa.
Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu is Professor of History at the University of South Africa and the author of The Soweto Uprisings: Counter-memories of June 1976 (1998) and African Perspectives of King Dingane kaSenzangakhona: The Second Monarch of the Zulu Kingdom (Palgrave, 2017).