Out of history: Re-imagining South Africans pasts

Author:   Jung Ran Forte ,  Paolo Israel ,  Leslie Witz
Publisher:   HSRC Press
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9780796925152


Pages:   284
Publication Date:   01 September 2016
Format:   Paperback
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Out of History brings together exciting and innovative work in History and the Humanities. Drawing upon papers which have been presented at the South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar at the University of the Western Cape, the book reflects upon how this space fashioned new histories of the South African past over the last twenty years. Written by leading scholars in fields of visual history, public history, heritage, linguistics, oral history and postcolonial studies, the contributionsaddress critical questions about the production of academic knowledge and the status of the Humanities in the post-apartheid present. Through offering a critique of nationalist narratives, the chapters explore the limits of historical representations, providing new paths to rethink memory, the archive, creative writing, disciplinary methodologies and the legacies of colonialism.

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Author:   Jung Ran Forte ,  Paolo Israel ,  Leslie Witz
Publisher:   HSRC Press
Imprint:   HSRC Press
Weight:   500.000kg
ISBN:  

9780796925152


ISBN 10:   0796925151
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   01 September 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Leslie Witz, Jung Ran Forte and Paolo Israel Epistemological Restlessness: Trajectories in and out of History; 2. Gary Minkley and Leslie Witz Sir Harry Smith and his Imbongi: Local and National Identities in the Eastern Cape, 1952; 3. Nicky Rousseau Unpalatable Truths and Popular Hunger: Reflections on Popular History in the 1980s; 4. Susan Newton-King Hilletje Smits and the Shadow of Death: Transgression in the Camdeboo; 5. Isabel Hofmeyr Reading Oral Texts: New Methodological Directions; 6. Uma Mesthrie Remembering Removals; 7. Patricia Hayes Northern Exposures. The Photography of C.H.L. Hahn, Native Commissioner of Ovamboland 1915-1946; 8. Ciraj Rassool Taking the Nation to school: I.B. Tabata and the Politics of Knowledge; 9. Hlonipha Mokoena What did this Life Mean? Magema Magwaza Fuze and the Problem of Writing a Kholwa Intellectual History; 10. Fernando Rosa Ribeiro Rethinking Multilingualism in South Africa; 11. Premesh Lalu The Absent Centre: Human Capital, Nationalism and the Postcolonial Critique of Apartheid.

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Jung Ran Forte is a lecturer in the Anthropology and Sociology Department at the University of the Western Cape. Her research interests include Vodun religion, ritual and African diaspora. Paolo Israel is a senior lecturer in the History Department at the University of the Western Cape. He is the author of In Step with the Times: Mapiko Masquerades of Mozambique. Leslie Witz is a professor in the History Department at the University of the Western Cape. His research centres around how different histories are produced and represented in the public domain.

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