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Preface / vii Introduction: Memory and Amnesia after Apartheid / 1 1 The Power of Collective Memory / 11 2 White Lies: Mythmaking and Social Memory in the Service of White Minority Rule / 29 3 Facing Backward, Looking Forward: The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting / 49 4 Collective Memory in Place: The Voortrekker Monument and the Hector Pieterson Memorial / 71 5 Haunted Heritage: Visual Display at District Six and Robben Island / 109 6 Makeshift Memorials: Marking Time with Vernacular Remembrance / 145 7 Textual Memories: Autobiographical Writing in a Time of Uncertainty / 163 Epilogue: History and Heritage / 203 contents Acknowledgments / 219 Notes / 223 Index / 289 ...

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