Mourning Becomes...

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Post/Memory and Commemoration of the Concentration Camps of the South African War 1899-1902

Автор: Liz Stanley

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This fascinating work challenges many of the accepted facts about the concentration camps run by the...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Liz Stanley

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2006

страници

320

EAN

9780719065682

ISBN

0719065682

Enbook ID

04647677

Издател

MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Теглоt

544

Размери

224 x 149 x 24

Пълно описание

This fascinating work challenges many of the accepted facts about the concentration camps run by the British during the South African War. The author demonstrates that much of what we have traditionally understood about these camps originates the testimony which was solicited, selected and published by key women activists within Boer proto-nationalist circles. Using detailed archival evidence, she shows that much of the history of the camps results from a deliberate imposition of 'post/memory' - a process by which what was 'remembered' was shaped and reshaped to support the development of a racialised nationalist framework. Many of the camps' occupants died from successive epidemics of measles, typhoid, enteritis and pneumonia rather than deliberate ill-treatment, yet the book shows how mourning for those who died was overridden by state commemorative activities concerned with promoting pan-Boer nationalist aspirations. The innovative and groundbreaking approach of the author invites the reader to step into and explore with her the commemorative sites passed by nationalist land acts, which still powerfully mark the South African landscape.

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