Beschreibung:
Annie E. Coombes teaches art history and cultural studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, where she is Director of Graduate Studies in the School of History of Art, Film, and Visual Media. She is the author of "Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture, and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England" and coeditor of "Hybridity and Its Discontents: Politics, Science, Culture."
How should post-apartheid South Africa present its history - in museums, monuments, and parks.
Introduction: Making history memorable; 1. Translating the past: Apartheid monuments in post-apartheid South Africa; 2. Robben Island: Site of memory / Site of nation; 3. Mixed histories: District six; 4. New histories for old: Museological strategies; 5. New histories for old: The place of "ethnicity" in the "New" South Africa; 6. New subjectivities for the new Nation; Epilogue: Changing places