Apartheid's Festival : Contesting South Africa's National Pasts (African Systems of Thought)

Apartheid's Festival : Contesting South Africa's National Pasts (African Systems of Thought)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 324 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780253342713
  • DDC分類 968.7355

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"Apartheid's Festival" highlights the conflicts and debates that surrounded the 1952 celebration of the 300th anniversary of the landing of Jan Van Riebeeck and the founding of Cape Town, South Africa. Taking place at the height of the apartheid era, the festival was viewed by many as an opportunity for the government to promote its nationalist, separatist agenda in grand fashion. Leslie Witz's fine-grained examination of newspapers, brochures, pamphlets, and advertising materials reveals the expectations of the festival planners as well as how the festival was engineered, historical figures were reconstructed, and the ANC and other non-Europeans mounted opposition to it.While laying open the darker motives of the apartheid regime, Witz shows that the production of local history is part of a global process forged by the struggle between colonialism and resistance. Readers interested in South Africa, representations of nationalism, and the making of public history will find "Apartheid's Festival" to be an important study of a society in transition.

Contents

Acknowledgments; List of AbbreviationsIntroductionand the Making of National Pasts1. Van Riebeeck's Pasts2. "We Build a Nation": The Festival of Unity and Exclusion3. Contesting Van Riebeeck's Nation4. "'n Fees vir die Oog" [A Festival/Feast for the Eye]: Looking in on the 1952 Jan Van Riebeeck Tercentenary Festival Fair5. Local and National Pasts: The Journeys of the Mail Coach 'Settlers' Through the Eastern CapePost Van RiebeeckNotes; Bibliography; Index