Historical memory in Africa
Subtitle: dealing with the past, reaching for the future in an intercultural context
By: edited by Mamadou Diawara, Bernard Lategan, and Jörn Rüsen.
Contributors: Diawara, Mamadou.; Lategan, Bernard C.; Rüsen, Jörn
Series: Making sense of history -- v. 12
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781845456528
Subjects: Historiography -- Social aspects -- Africa; Collective memory -- Africa; Memory -- Social aspects -- Africa; Africa -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Social theory and making sense of Africa / Elisio Macamo; title: History by word of mouth : linking past and present through oral memory / Annekie Joubert; title: Historical memory and representation of new nations in Africa / Bogumil Jewsiewicki; title: Memory, history and historiography of Congo-Zaire / Justin Bisanswa; title: Remembering the past, reaching for the future : aspects of African historical memory in an international context / Mamadou Diawara; title: Remembering conflict : the centenary commemoration of the South African War of 1899-1902 as a case study / Albert Grundlingh; title: From public history to private enterprise : the politics of memory in the new South Africa / Patrick Harries; title: Remembering with the future in mind / Bernard Lategan; title: Holocaust experience and historical sense generation from a German perspective / Jörn Rüsen; title: Ayodhya, memory, myth : futurizing the past from an Indian perspective / Ranjan Ghosh; title: Human suffering and forgiveness : a dialogue with Kim Dae-Jung from an East Asian perspective / Han Sang-Jin; title: Remorse, forgiveness and rehumanization : stories from South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela; title: Healing from Auschwitz and Mengele's experiments / Eva Mozes Kor.