Commemorating and forgetting : challenges for the new South Africa / Martin J. Murray.

When the past is painful, as riddled with violence and injustice as it is in postapartheid South Africa, remembrance presents a problem at once practical and ethical: how much of the past to preserve and recollect and how much to erase and forget if the new nation is to ever unify and move forward?...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Murray, Martin J. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Subjects:	South Africa > Historiography. Collective memory > South Africa. Public history > South Africa. Political culture > South Africa. Social change > Psychological aspects. Collective memory Historiography Political culture Public history Social change > Psychological aspects South Africa