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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Field, S

Titel

Oral History, Community, and Displacement: Imagining Memories in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 01 02 This book uses oral history methodology to record stories of people who experienced the brunt of racist forced removals in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. Through life stories and community case studies, it traces the human impact of this disruptive, often violent feature of apartheid's social engineering. The impact of displacement is not simply the product of a racist and ethnocentric vision, but also the myriad of experiences of place, people, and communities, which are sustained in the present through remembering and imagining. 04 02 PART I: OPENINGS Imagining Memories: Oral Histories of Place and Displacement in Post-Apartheid Cape Town PARTII: COMMUNITIES AND IDENTITIES UNDER APARTHEID Remembering Experience, Interpreting Memory: Life Stories from Windermere Fragile Identities: Memory, Emotion, and Coloured Residents of Windermere From the 'Peaceful Past' to the 'Violent Present': Memory, Myth and Identity in Guguletu Disappointed Men: Masculine Myths and Hybrid Identities in Windermere PART III: POST-APARTHEID IMAGININGS, SITES AND PLACES Imagining Communities: Memory, Loss and Resilience in Post-Apartheid Cape Town Sites of Memory in Langa 'There Your Memory Runs Like a Camera Back': Moving Places and Audio-Visual Oral Histories from Klipfontein Road 'Others Killed in my Eyes': Rwandan Refugee Testimonies from Cape Town PART IV: CONCLUSIONS WITHOUT CLOSURE Beyond 'Healing': Oral History, Trauma and Regeneration Disappointed Imaginings: Narcissism and Empathy in Post-Apartheid South Africa 13 02 Sean Fieldis the director of the Centre for Popular Memory at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is also a senior lecturer in the Historical Studies Department. He has widely published on apartheid forced removals, African refugees, oral history methodology, and trauma and memory. His publications include Lost Communities, Living Memories: Remembering Forced Removals in Cape Town(2001) and Imagining the City: Memories and Cultures in Cape Town(2007). 19 02 1) MULTIPLE DISCIPLINES: With its emphasis on traumatic dislocation and the construction of memory, this book will have significance for scholars in politics, psychology, African Studies, memory studies, sociology, and of course history. 2) PROMINENT ORAL HISTORIAN: Field is a well-regarded figure on the international oral history scene. 3) IMPORTANT PUBLICATION: This book will make available to a US and international audience certain important studies that until now were only available in obscure journals. It also represents developments in the field that have gone under-appreciated in the US and UK. 4) RELEVANCE TODAY: This book not only helps to illuminate the apartheid era but gives valuable insights into the current state of South African society. 02 02 This book uses oral history methodology to record stories of people who experienced the brunt of racist forced removals in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. Through life stories and community case studies, it traces the human impact of this disruptive, often violent feature of apartheid's social engineering.