Writing History in a Wounded Country
In 1980s South Africa, an internationally recognised school of radical historians, close to the trade unions and township civic movements, pioneered genres of historical writing that emphasised working-class resistance to apartheid. By contrast, this article focuses on South African activists and...
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2026
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Περίληψη: | In 1980s South Africa, an internationally recognised school of radical historians, close to the trade unions and township civic movements, pioneered genres of historical writing that emphasised working-class resistance to apartheid. By contrast, this article focuses on South African activists and NGOs that practiced a form of historical narration rooted in vernacular traditions of Christian activism, which chronicled both the suffering of settler colonialism and the hope of reconciliation and reconstruction. As the township insurrections splintered into more generalised political violence in the early 1990s, the radical historical narrative of resistance was eclipsed by these lesser-known redemptive histories.
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