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001 2012000438
003 DLC
005 20120426083200.0
008 120109s2012 nyuab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012000438
020 $a9780230108905 (hardback)
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050 00 $aDT2405.C369$bA23 2012
082 00 $a305.89606873/5509045$223
084 $aHIS047000$aHIS054000$aHIS037070$aSOC031000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aField, Sean.
245 10 $aOral history, community and displacement :$bimagining memories in post-apartheid South Africa /$cSean Field.
260 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2012.
300 $axvi, 221 p. :$bill., map ;$c25 cm.
490 0 $aPalgrave studies in oral history
520 $a"This book uses oral history methodology to record stories of people who experienced the brunt of racist forced removals in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. Through life stories and community case studies, it traces the human impact of this disruptive, often violent feature of apartheid's social engineering. The impact of displacement is not simply the product of a racist and ethnocentric vision, but also the myriad of experiences of place, people, and communities, which are sustained in the present through remembering and imagining"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- Part I: Openings * Imagining Memories: Oral Histories of Place and Displacement in Post-Apartheid Cape Town * Part II: 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.
650 0 $aApartheid$zSouth Africa$zCape Town$xHistory.
650 0 $aColored people (South Africa)$xRelocation$zSouth Africa$zCape Town$xHistory.
650 0 $aForced migration$zSouth Africa$zCape Town$xHistory.
650 0 $aOral history$zSouth Africa$zCape Town.
650 0 $aCollective memory$zSouth Africa$zCape Town.
650 0 $aSociology, Urban$zSouth Africa$zCape Town.
651 0 $aCape Town (South Africa)$xRace relations.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Social History.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/905/9780230108905/image/lgcover.9780230108905.jpg