Oral history, community, and displacement : imagining memories in post-apartheid South Africa
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Oral history, community, and displacement : imagining memories in post-apartheid South Africa
(Palgrave studies in oral history)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
1st ed
- : softcover
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book uses oral history methodology to record stories of people who experienced the brunt of racist forced removals in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. Through life stories and community case studies, it traces the human impact of this disruptive, often violent feature of apartheid's social engineering.
Table of Contents
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
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