Apartheid's Festival - Contesting South Africa's National Pasts

Readers interested in South Africa, representations of nationalism, and the making of public history will find Apartheid's Festival to be an important study of a society in transition.

List of contents

Preliminary Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Journeys, Festivals, and the Making of National Pasts

1. Van Riebeeck's Pasts

2. "We Build a Nation": The Festival of Unity and Exclusion

3. Contesting Van Riebeeck's Nation

4. "'n Fees vir die Oog" [A Festival/Feast for the Eye]: Looking in on the 1952 Jan Van Riebeeck Tercentenary Festival Fair

5. Local and National Pasts: The Journeys of the Mail Coach "Settlers" Through the Eastern Cape

Conclusion: Post Van Riebeeck

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Leslie Witz

Summary

Highlights the conflicts and debates that surrounded the 1952 celebration of the 300th anniversary of the landing of Jan Van Riebeeck and the founding of Cape Town, South Africa. This title reveals the expectations of the festival planners and how the festival was engineered and the ANC and other non-Europeans mounted opposition to it.

Product details

• Authors: Leslie Witz, Witz Leslie
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.2003
• EAN: 9780253216137
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21613-7
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 238 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 513 g
• Series: African Systems of Thought; African Systems of Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous