Overview
- Examines the memorialisation of South Africa’s liberation struggle in the context of a complex political landscape
- Brings together the authors’ experiences as former activists against apartheid and their expertise in public history, historiography, and heritage studies
- Appeals to scholars and students of South African history, memory studies, public history, heritage studies, political history, and cultural history
Part of the book series: African Histories and Modernities (AHAM)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- Post-apartheid South Africa
- Public memory
- public history in South Africa
- the liberation struggle in South Africa
- Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum
- June 16 Memorial Acre
- Mandela House Museum
- Kliptown Open Air Museum
- Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication
- Lilliesleaf Museum
- state and nation formation in southern Africa
- heritage sites in South Africa
- Union of South Africa
- Commemoration of Historic Events
- Politics of South Africa
- Heritage of South Africa
- South African art
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu is Professor of History at the University of South Africa and the author of The Soweto Uprisings: Counter-memories of June 1976 (1998) and African Perspectives of King Dingane kaSenzangakhona: The Second Monarch of the Zulu Kingdom (Palgrave, 2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Public History and Culture in South Africa
Book Subtitle: Memorialisation and Liberation Heritage Sites in Johannesburg and the Township Space
Authors: Ali Khangela Hlongwane, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu
Series Title: African Histories and Modernities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14749-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14748-8Published: 29 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14749-5Published: 11 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-5773
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5781
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 282
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: African History, Memory Studies, Cultural History, African Culture, Cultural Heritage