Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa - Softcover

`Nuttall and Coetzees book is an excellent beginning to the dynamic area of public memory and representation in South Africa.' Sean Field, African History, Vol.41, 2000. `an explicitly useful book for all who consider the issue of social memory important in the construction of reality.' JL, Jnl of Peace Research, Vol.37, 2000, No.4. `The book bravely crosses the disciplinary ghettos of the academy.' Sean Field, African History, Vol.41, 2000.

Nations as well as individuals are in many ways the sum of their memories, which are shaped by perception as much as by events. This collection of essays by South African academics looks at the ways the country is dealing with its past, a complex mixture of colonialism, slavery, apartheid, struggle, and guilt. The emphasis is on how that past is being perceived and moulded in the post-apartheid era.