Oral History, Community, and Displacement [electronic resource] : Imagining Memories in Post-Apartheid South Africa /
Field, S.author.
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.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Permissions; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Series Editors' Foreword; INTRODUCTION Imagining Memories: Oral Histories of Place and Displacement in Post-Apartheid Cape Town; Part I Communities and Identities under Apartheid Framing Notes I: Entangled Histories; CHAPTER 1 Remembering Experience, Interpreting Memory: Life Stories from Windermere; CHAPTER 2 Fragile Identities: Memory, Emotion, and Coloured Residents of Windermere; CHAPTER 3 From the "Peaceful Past" to the "Violent Present": Memory, Myth, and Identity in Guguletu
CHAPTER 4 Disappointed Men: Masculine Myths and Hybrid Identities in WindermerePart II Post-Apartheid Imaginings, Sites, and Places Framing Notes II: Oral History through the Mind's Eye; CHAPTER 5 Imagining Communities: Memory, Loss, and Resilience in Post-Apartheid Cape Town; CHAPTER 6 Sites of Memory in Langa; CHAPTER 7 "There Your Memory Runs Like a Camera Back": Moving Places and Audiovisual Oral Histories from Klipfontein Road; CHAPTER 8 "Others Killed in My Eyes": Rwandan Refugee Testimonies from Cape Town
Part III Conclusions without Closure Framing Notes III: The Politics of Memory, Oral History, and VoiceCHAPTER 9 Beyond "Healing": Oral History, Trauma, and Regeneration; CHAPTER 10 Disappointed Imaginings: Narcissism and Empathy in Post-Apartheid South Africa; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Civilization-History.
Africa-History.
Africa-Politics and government.
Social history.
Oral history.
History, Modern.
Cultural History.
African History.
African Politics.
Social History.
Oral History.
Modern History.