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

by S. Field

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349291786
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	02/29/2012
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Oral History
Edition description:	1st ed. 2012
Pages:	221
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

SEAN FIELD Senior Lecturer in the Historical Studies Department at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Table of Contents

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