Unsettled History: Making South African Public Pasts

by Ciraj Rassool, Leslie Witz, Gary Minkley

Unsettled History examines South African society and the construction and presentation of its public pasts, from Nelson Mandela's release from prison in 1990 to South Africa's hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup (R). Conventionally represented as a time of rectifying the silences and distortions of settler history through inclusion and recovery, the focus here instead is on the shifts in processes and locations of historicizing and the unsettled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472053345
• ISBN13: 9780472053346
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"