Oral History, Community, and Displacement: Imagining Memories in Post-Apartheid South Africa

By Sean Field

Book Overview

PART I: OPENINGS Imagining Memories: Oral Histories of Place and Displacement in Post-Apartheid Cape Town PARTII: COMMUNITIES AND IDENTITIES UNDER APARTHEID Remembering Experience, Interpreting Memory: Life Stories from Windermere Fragile Identities: Memory, Emotion, and Coloured Residents of Windermere From the 'Peaceful Past' to the 'Violent Present': Memory, Myth and Identity in Guguletu Disappointed Men: Masculine Myths and Hybrid Identities in Windermere PART III: POST-APARTHEID IMAGININGS, SITES AND PLACES Imagining Communities: Memory, Loss and Resilience in Post-Apartheid Cape Town Sites of Memory in Langa 'There Your Memory Runs Like a Camera Back': Moving Places and Audio-Visual Oral Histories from Klipfontein Road 'Others Killed in my Eyes': Rwandan Refugee Testimonies from Cape Town PART IV: CONCLUSIONS WITHOUT CLOSURE Beyond 'Healing': Oral History, Trauma and Regeneration Disappointed Imaginings: Narcissism and Empathy in Post-Apartheid South Africa

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349291781
• ISBN13: 9781349291786
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"