Oral history, community and displacement

imagining memories in post-apartheid South Africa

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Sean Field
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Oral history, community and displacement

imagining memories in post-apartheid South Africa

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"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. The impact of displacement is not simply the product of a racist and ethnocentric vision, but also the myriad of experiences of place, people, and communities, which are sustained in the present through remembering and imagining"--

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Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English

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Oral History, Community, and Displacement: Imagining Memories in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Feb 29, 2012, Palgrave Macmillan
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Table of Contents

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Part I: Openings * Imagining Memories: Oral Histories of Place and Displacement in Post-Apartheid Cape Town * Part II: 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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New York
Series
Palgrave studies in oral history

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.89606873/5509045
Library of Congress
DT2405.C369 A23 2012, CB3-CB481DT1-3415JQ1

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25173626M
ISBN 13
9780230108905
LCCN
2012000438
OCLC/WorldCat
719428012

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