LEADER 04344nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910812396803321 005 20230126205839.0 010 $a0-231-53072-2 024 7 $a10.7312/herw16018 035 $a(CKB)2670000000242569 035 $a(EBL)1028076 035 $a(OCoLC)812924954 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000720805 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12263912 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000720805 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10670126 035 $a(PQKB)11465507 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000099588 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1028076 035 $a(DE-B1597)458935 035 $a(OCoLC)956787925 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231530729 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1028076 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10604419 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL668074 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000242569 100 $a20120131d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHeritage, culture, and politics in the postcolony /$fDaniel Herwitz 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (233 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-36792-2 311 $a0-231-16018-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tOne. The Heritage of Heritage --$tTwo. Recovering and Inventing the Past: M. F. Husain's Live Action Heritage --$tThree. Sustaining Heritage Off the Road to Kruger Park --$tFour. Monument, Ruin, and Redress in South African Heritage --$tFive. Renaissance and Pandemic --$tSix. Tocqueville on the Bridge to Nowhere --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aThe act of remaking one's history into a heritage, a conscientiously crafted narrative placed over the past, is a thriving industry in almost every postcolonial culture. This is surprising, given the tainted role of heritage in so much of colonialism's history. Yet the postcolonial state, like its European predecessor of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, deploys heritage institutions and instruments, museums, courts of law, and universities to empower itself with unity, longevity, exaltation of value, origin, and destiny. Bringing the eye of a philosopher, the pen of an essayist, and the experience of a public intellectual to the study of heritage, Daniel Herwitz reveals the febrile pitch at which heritage is staked. In this absorbing book, he travels to South Africa and unpacks its controversial and robust confrontations with the colonial and apartheid past. He visits India and reads in its modern art the gesture of a newly minted heritage idealizing the precolonial world as the source of Indian modernity. He traverses the United States and finds in its heritage of incessant invention, small town exceptionalism, and settler destiny a key to contemporary American media-driven politics. Showing how destabilizing, ambivalent, and potentially dangerous heritage is as a producer of contemporary social, aesthetic, and political realities, Herwitz captures its perfect embodiment of the struggle to seize culture and society at moments of profound social change. 606 $aSocial sciences and history 606 $aNational characteristics, East Indian 606 $aNational characteristics, South African 606 $aNational characteristics, American 606 $aPostcolonialism$zIndia 606 $aPostcolonialism$zSouth Africa 606 $aPostcolonialism$zUnited States 607 $aIndia$xHistoriography$xSocial aspects 607 $aSouth Africa$xHistoriography$xSocial aspects 607 $aUnited States$xHistoriography$xSocial aspects 615 0$aSocial sciences and history. 615 0$aNational characteristics, East Indian. 615 0$aNational characteristics, South African. 615 0$aNational characteristics, American. 615 0$aPostcolonialism 615 0$aPostcolonialism 615 0$aPostcolonialism 676 $a907.2 700 $aHerwitz$b Daniel Alan$f1955-$01622466 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812396803321 996 $aHeritage, culture, and politics in the postcolony$94046239 997 $aUNINA