Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 320 pages
• Published by: Oxford University Press, USA; Re-issue edition August 6, 1998
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0195715039
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0195715033
• Book Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 12 ounces

Product Review
`Nuttall and Coetzees book is an great beginning to the dynamic area of public memory and representation in South Africa.' Sean Field, African History, Vol.41, 2000.

`an explicitly useful book for all who consider the issue of social memory important in the construction of reality.' JL, Jnl of Peace Research, Vol.37, 2000, No.4.

`The book bravely crosses the disciplinary ghettos of the academy.' Sean Field, African History, Vol.41, 2000.

Product Description
This collection of essays by South African academics looks at the ways the country is dealing with its past, a complex mixture of colonialism, slavery, apartheid, struggle, and guilt. The emphasis is on how that past is being perceived and molded in the post-apartheid era.