| Contested Histories in Public Space: Memory, Race, and Nation Contributor(s): Walkowitz, Daniel (Editor), Knauer, Lisa Maya (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0822342170 ISBN-13: 9780822342175 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $102.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2009 Annotation: "By offering studies from six continents, this volume makes the important point that globalization on the one hand and new sorts of localism on the other have powerfully affected discussions of how an often dark and morally compromised past can be critically assimilated into the nearly universal state of fractured national consciousness."--Thomas W. Laqueur, University of California, Berkeley |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | World - General - History | Modern - 20th Century - History | Historiography |
| Dewey: 909 |
| LCCN: 2008048029 |
| Series: Radical Perspectives |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" (1.35 lbs) 376 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Southern Africa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Contested Histories in Public Space brings multiple perspectives to bear on historical narratives presented to the public in museums, monuments, texts, and festivals around the world, from Paris to Kathmandu, from the Mexican state of Oaxaca to the waterfront of Wellington, New Zealand. Paying particular attention to how race and empire are implicated in the creation and display of national narratives, the contributing historians, anthropologists, and other scholars delve into representations of contested histories at such "sites" as a British Library exhibition on the East India Company, a Rio de Janeiro shantytown known as "the cradle of samba," the Ellis Island immigration museum, and high-school history textbooks in Ecuador. Several contributors examine how the experiences of indigenous groups and the imperial past are incorporated into public histories in British Commonwealth nations: in Te Papa, New Zealand's national museum; in the First Peoples' Hall at the Canadian Museum of Civilization; and, more broadly, in late-twentieth-century Australian culture. Still others focus on the role of governments in mediating contested racialized histories: for example, the post-apartheid history of South Africa's Voortrekker Monument, originally designed as a tribute to the Voortrekkers who colonized the country's interior. Among several essays describing how national narratives have been challenged are pieces on a dispute over how to represent Nepali history and identity, on representations of Afrocuban religions in contemporary Cuba, and on the installation in the French Pantheon in Paris of a plaque honoring Louis Delgr s, a leader of Guadeloupean resistance to French colonialism.
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