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
Edition: First paperback edition.
Series: Making sense of history -- volume 12; Making sense of history -- v. 12.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781782380832; 9781782380849
Subjects: Historiography; Collective memory; Social aspects; Memory
Notes: Originally published: 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Social theory and making sense of Africa  -- Elísio 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-Zaïre  -- 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.