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Exchanging symbols, monuments and memorials in post-apartheid South Africa, editors Anitra Nettleton & Mathias Alubafi Fubah

eng

Includes bibliographical references

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

Exchanging symbols

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editors Anitra Nettleton & Mathias Alubafi Fubah

monuments and memorials in post-apartheid South Africa

"This book comprises eight essays that consider the politics and polemics of monuments in Africa in the wake of the #RhodesMustFall movement in 2015. The removal of the Rhodes statue from UCT main campus is the pivot on which the discussion of monuments as heritage in South Africa turns. It raised a number of questions about the implementation of heritage policy and the unequal deployment of memorials in the South African and other postcolonial landscapes. The essays in this volume are written by authors coming from different backgrounds and different disciplines. They address different aspects of this event and its aftermath, offering some intensive critique of existing monuments, analysing the successes of new initiatives, meditating on the visual resonances of all monuments and attempting to map ways of moving forward."--Page 4 of cover

Introduction / Mathias Alubafi Fubah and Anitra Nettleton -- Statues of Liberty? / Sharlene Swartz, Benjamin Roberts, Steven L Gordon & Jar̈ Struwig -- By design, survival and recognition / Anitra Nettleton -- In whose name? On statues, place and pain in South Africa / Alude Mahali -- Troubling statues: a symptom of a complex heritage complex / Sipokazi Madida -- Heritage denunciation and heritage enunciation? / Thabo Manetsi -- Present absence / Guy K̲nigstein -- This fragile present: Verfremdung as a strategy of memorial in the work of contemporary South African artists / Nancy Dantas -- Struggle heroes and heroines statues and monuments in Tshwane, South Africa / Mathias Alubafi Fubah and Catherine Ndinda