The legacy of a troubled past : commemorative politics in South Africa in the 21st century / edited by Bernard Cros, Mathilde Rogez and Gilles Teulié.
Notes on contributors. The Struggle, Past and Present : the Memorialisation of Violence -- Sabine Marschall -- Bruised Landscape of Memory : The Vandalism, Abuse and Neglect of Statues and Commemorative Monuments in South Africa -- Fanny Robles -- On the (In)Appropriate Way to Remember Racial Oppression : Brett Bailey's Exhibit A and B -- Annael Le Poullennec -- How to 'Re-member' Marikana? Memory, Narratives and Mise en scène -- The Ambiguous Memorialisation of Herœs -- Brenda Schmahmann -- Monumental Disruptions : Usha Seejarim's Commemorations of Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela -- Mélanie Joseph-Vilain -- Commemorating Piet Retief : Justin Cartwright's -- Up Against the Night (2015) -- Shannen Hill -- Borrowing Biko : Visual Critiques of Capitalism in South Africa -- Learning and Unlearning : Memories and/for the Future -- Fiona McCann -- 'Unlearning' the Past, Reappraising the Present in Antjie Krog's -- Life Writing : The Double Valence of Dispossession -- Philippe Denis -- Memory Work with HIV-Positive Children -- under Antiretroviral Treatment in KwaZulu-Natal -- Cécile Perrot -- Youth, Memory and Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa -- Epilogue -- Gary Baines -- From Reconciliation to Contentious Co-existence : Memory Work and Wars in Post-Apartheid South Africa -- Notes on contributors.
Summary:
Depuis l'avènement de la démocratie en 1994, l'Afrique du Sud s'est engagée dans un exercice sans précédent d'auto-analyse nationale, tiraillée entre le besoin de mettre un terme à des siècles de conflit racial et l'envie de se réconcilier avec les traumatismes de son histoire. Ce livre pose la question de savoir si le pays a commencé à tourner la page sur des siècles de douleur. Il pose des questions fondamentales par rapport à la persistance de la mémoire traumatique; l'Afrique du Sud arrive-t-elle enfin en bout de course de sa transition post-apartheid? Le travail de mémoire entrepris finira-t-il par réconcilier la nation avec son passé? Since the advent of democracy in 1994, South Africa has been engaged in an unprecedented exercise of national soul-searching, torn between the need to lay to rest centuries of racial conflict and the desire to come to terms with its traumatic history. This book asks whether the country has begun to turn the corner on centuries of hurt. It poses fundamental questions about the persistence of trauma in collective memory: is the country finally coming to the end of the post-apartheid transition period? Does the memory work undertaken promise to make South Africa a nation at peace with its past?"
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