Landscape of memory : commemorative monuments, memorials and public statuary in post-apartheid South-Africa /

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Author / Creator:Marschall, Sabine.
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Description:xiv, 407 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Afrika-Studiecentrum series, 1570-9310 ; v. 15
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Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 15.
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9354598
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ISBN:9789004178564 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9004178562
9789047440918 (electronic book)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cultural heritage conservation and policy
  • Paying tribute: The first public memorials to the victims of the liberation movements
  • Coming to terms with trauma: The TRC and memorials to the victims of apartheid violence
  • Imagining community through bereavement: The institutionalisation of traumatic memory
  • Dealing with the commemorative legacy of the past
  • Defining national identity with heritage: The National Legacy Project
  • Freedom Park as national site of identification
  • Celebrating 'mothers of the nation': The Monument to the Women of South Africa in Pretoria
  • Africanising the symbolic landscape: Post-apartheid monuments as 'critical response'
  • Commodification, tourism and the need for visual markers.