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Title: | Becoming worthy ancestors: archive, public deliberation and identity in South Africa |
Editor: | Mangcu, Xolela |
Year: | 2011 |
Pages: | 168 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | Johannesburg |
Publisher: | Wits University Press |
ISBN: | 1868145328; 9781868145324 |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | identity citizenship memory |
Abstract: | The contributors to this book suggest that the archive (our collective memory of the past) can stand as a reminder of the finest traditions of the struggle for democracy in South Africa. The Constitution of Public Intellectual Life Project at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in 2006 convened a series of lectures on how the archive can inform public deliberation about identity and citizenship. In a changed environment of public dialogue, the book goes back to those lectures in the hope of inspiring a re-thinking of what it means to have an inclusive conception of citizenship in the country. Contributions by Xolela Mangcu, Ntongela Masilela, Frederick van Zyl Slabbert, Martin Bernal, Pumla Dineo Gqola, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Benedict Anderson, Carolyn Hamilton. [ASC Leiden abstract] |