Historical Memory in Africa : : Dealing with the Past, Reaching for the Future in an Intercultural Context /

Historical Memory in Africa : : Dealing with the Past, Reaching for the Future in an Intercultural Context / / ed. by Mamadou Diawara, Bernard Lategan, Jörn Rüsen.

A vast amount of literature—both scholarly and popular—now exists on the subject of historical memory, but there is remarkably little available that is written from an African perspective. This volume explores the inner dynamics of memory in all its variations, from its most destructive and divisive...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Bisanswa, Justin,
Diawara, Mamadou,
Ghosh, Ranjan,
Gobodo-Madikizela, Pumla,
Grundlingh, Albert,
Harries, Patrick,
Jewsiewicki, Bogumil,
Joubert, Annekie,
Kor, Eva Mozes,
Lategan, Bernard,
Macamo, Elísio,
Rüsen, Jörn,
Sang-Jin, Han,
HerausgeberIn:
Diawara, Mamadou,
Lategan, Bernard,
Rüsen, Jörn,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Making Sense of History ; 12
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I FROM AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE
  • CHAPTER 1 Social Theory and Making Sense of Africa
  • CHAPTER 2 History by Word of Mouth: Linking Past and Present through Oral Memory
  • CHAPTER 3 Historical Memory and Representation of New Nations in Africa
  • CHAPTER 4 Memory, History and Historiography of Congo-Zaïre
  • CHAPTER 5 Remembering the Past, Reaching for the Future Aspects of African Historical Memory in an International Context
  • CHAPTER 6 Remembering Conflict: The Centenary Commemoration of the South African War of 1899–1902 as a Case Study
  • CHAPTER 7 From Public History to Private Enterprise: The Politics of Memory in the New South Africa
  • CHAPTER 8 Remembering with the Future in Mind
  • Part II FROM AN INTERCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
  • CHAPTER 9 Holocaust Experience and Historical Sense Generation from a German Perspective
  • CHAPTER 10 Ayodhya, Memory, Myth Futurizing the Past from an Indian Perspective
  • CHAPTER 11 Human Suffering and Forgiveness: A Dialogue with Kim Dae-jung from an East Asian Perspective
  • Part III TEXTS FROM THE PRAXIS OF MEMORY, TRAUMA, FORGIVENESS AND HEALING
  • CHAPTER 12 Remorse, Forgiveness and Rehumanization: Stories from South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
  • CHAPTER 13 Healing from Auschwitz and Mengele’s Experiments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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