| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.3

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Book Review

Methods/Theory

Sarah Nuttall and Carli Coetzee, editors. Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa. New York: Oxford University Press. 1998. Pp. xii, 300. $19.95.

How does a country with as bitterly divided, brutal, and haunted a history as South Africa come to terms with its past? What are the appropriate monuments to such a history, and how does one prevent new forms of silencing the Past from replacing the old? How can the people of South Africa create a new South African culture without obliterating the past? These are the issues that concern the contributors to this multifaceted collection on the remaking of history in post-apartheid South Africa. 1

Divided into four sections on "Truth, Memory, and Narrative," "The Remembered Self," "Museums, Memorials, and Public Memory," and "Inscribing the Past," this is a book about the ways in which memories are formed and reformed, manipulated, and appropriated. The authors are predominantly specialists in literature and history, but philosophy, museology, linguistics, art history, historical archaeology, and constitutional law are also represented. Despite their diverse disciplines, the contributors are united in some sense by their preoccupation with "the processes of memory . . . how memory is created and inscribed" (p. 1) and the multiple sites at which history is produced. The hearings before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) provide the context. . . .

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