Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa Book

	Notes on the contributors
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Truth, memory, and narrative
1	Memory, metaphor, and the triumph of narrative	19
2	Stories of history: reimagining the past in post-apartheid narrative	29
3	Forgiving and forgetting: the Truth and Reconciliation Commission	43
4	Cracked heirlooms: memory on exhibition	57
Pt. II	The remembered self
5	Telling 'free' stories? Memory and democracy in South African autobiography since 1994	75
6	Orality, memory, and social history in South Africa	89
7	Memory and history in William Kentridge's History of the Main Complaint	100
8	Krotoa remembered: a mother of unity, a mother of sorrows?	112
9	Silence in my father's house: memory, nationalism, and narratives of the body	120
Pt. III	Museums, memorials, and public memory
10	Museums and the reshaping of memory	143
11	Remembering tragedy, constructing modernity: Robben Island as a national monument	161
12	Earth and stone: archaeology as memory	180
13	Commemorating, suppressing, and invoking Cape slavery	201
Pt. IV	Inscribing the past
14	Ads and amnesia: black advertising in the new South Africa	221
15	African languages as European scripts: the shaping of communal memory	242
16	The constitutional entrenchment of memory	249
	Notes	263
	Bibliography	275
	Index	291