02351nam 22005773u 450 991046303400332120210108144224.01-4529-3956-X(CKB)2670000000359248(EBL)1204680(SSID)ssj0000889762(PQKBManifestationID)11502935(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000889762(PQKBWorkID)10883281(PQKB)11346150(MiAaPQ)EBC1204680(EXLCZ)99267000000035924820130610d2013|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrCommemorating and Forgetting[electronic resource] Challenges for the New South AfricaMinneapolis University of Minnesota Press20131 online resource (320 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-8300-X When the past is painful, as riddled with violence and injustice as it is in postapartheid South Africa, remembrance presents a problem at once practical and ethical: how much of the past to preserve and recollect and how much to erase and forget if the new nation is to ever unify and move forward? The new South Africa's confrontation of this dilemma is Martin J. Murray's subject in Commemorating and Forgetting. More broadly, this book explores how collective memory works-how framing events, persons, and places worthy of recognition and honor entails a selective appropriatioCollective memoryPsychological aspectsSouth AfricaPublic historySouth AfricaPolitical cultureSouth AfricaSocial changeHistory & ArchaeologyHILCCRegions & Countries - AfricaHILCCElectronic books.Collective memoryPsychological aspectsPublic historyPolitical cultureSocial changeHistory & ArchaeologyRegions & Countries - Africa968.06/5072Murray Martin J660964AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910463034003321Commemorating and Forgetting2465254UNINA