| Description |
1 online resource (254 pages). |
| Series |
Making Sense of History
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Making sense of history.
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| Contents |
HISTORICAL MEMORY IN AFRICA; Contents; Introduction; PART I: FROM AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE; Chapter 1: Social Theory and Making Sense of Africa; Chapter 2: History by Word of Mouth; Chapter 3: Historical Memory and Representation of New Nations in Africa; Chapter 4: Memory, History and Historiography of Congo-Zaïre; Chapter 5: Remembering the Past, Reaching for the Future; Chapter 6: Remembering Conflict; Chapter 7: From Public History to Private Enterprise; Chapter 8: Remembering with the Future in Mind; PART II: FROM AN INTERCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE. |
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Chapter 9: Holocaust Experience and Historical Sense Generation from a German PerspectiveChapter 10: Ayodhya, Memory, Myth; Chapter 11: Human Suffering and Forgiveness; PART III: TEXTS FROM THE PRAXIS OF MEMORY, TRAUMA, FORGIVENESS AND HEALING; Chapter 12: Remorse, Forgiveness and Rehumanization; Chapter 13: Healing from Auschwitz and Mengele's Experiments; Notes on Contributors; Index. |
| Summary |
A vast amount of literature-both scholarly and popular-now exists on the subject of historical memory, but there is remarkably little available that is written from an African perspective. This volume explores the inner dynamics of memory in all its variations, from its most destructive and divisive impact to its remarkable potential to heal and reconcile. It addresses issues on both the conceptual and the pragmatic level and its theoretical observations and reflections are informed by first-hand experiences and comparative reflections from a German, Indian, and Korean perspective. A new in. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Historiography -- Social aspects -- Africa.
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Collective memory -- Africa.
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Memory -- Social aspects -- Africa.
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Africa -- Historiography.
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HISTORY -- Africa -- General. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. |
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Collective memory |
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Historiography |
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Historiography -- Social aspects |
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Memory -- Social aspects |
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Africa |
| Added Author |
Lategan, Bernard.
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Rüsen, Jörn.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Diawara, Mamadou. Historical Memory in Africa : Dealing with the Past, Reaching for the Future in an Intercultural Context. New York : Berghahn Books, ©2011 9781845456528 |
| ISBN |
9781845458379 |
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1845458370 |
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9781782380832 |
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9781845456528 |
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1845456521 |
| Standard No. |
9786612662461 |
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