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Aspects of memory identity and narrative in Native Nostalgia
Mini Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2016.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/60368 Aspects of memory identity and narrative in Native Nostalgia Kriel, Lize musikahimbaara@live.com Kahimbaara, Musinguzi John Akiiki UCTD Memory studies Cultural memory Collective memory Social memory Narrative identity Humanities theses SDG-04 Humanities theses SDG-10 Humanities theses SDG-11 Humanities theses SDG-16 Mini Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2016. I am a black South African in my late twenties; had I been slightly younger, I would have been a "born-free". I was raised on the master narrative that South African history in the twentieth century was a struggle against apartheid. Memories of the struggle had been mediated to me via the school curriculum, national holidays, public commemorations, public spaces, popular literature and television. This social memory of South Africa's black people having overcome the hardship, humiliation and trauma of apartheid makes little provision for the years prior to 1994 being remembered with fondness. And yet, this is exactly what Jacob Dlamini, almost twenty years my senior, dares to write about in his debut book, Native Nostalgia (2009). Having no effective personal recollection of apartheid myself, Dlamini's text poses me with the challenge of making sense of the marked discrepancy between the master narrative of the struggle against apartheid and Dlamini's individual sense of loss when reminiscing about his apartheid childhood. In this study, I investigate whether Dlamini's nostalgia is merely a sophisticated veil acting as social amnesia in an attempt to conveniently rewrite the past, or whether nostalgia of a particular kind may be a useful tool especially for black South Africans to negotiate their identity between master narratives about nationhood and personal memories about the everyday and the ordinary. Does Dlamini present black South Africans with useful means for post-apartheid identity construction, and, as such, hold out the possibility for continuity in the tradition of postcolonial resistance? ae2026 Visual Arts MA Unrestricted SDG-04: Quality education SDG-10: Reduced inequalities SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions 2017-05-12T11:38:39Z 2017-05-12T11:38:39Z 2017-05-09 2016 Mini Dissertation Kahimbaara, MJA 2016, Aspects of memory identity and narrative in Native Nostalgia, MA Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60368> A2017 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60368 en © 2017 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Memory studies Cultural memory Collective memory Social memory Narrative identity Humanities theses SDG-04 Humanities theses SDG-10 Humanities theses SDG-11 Humanities theses SDG-16 Aspects of memory identity and narrative in Native Nostalgia |
| title | Aspects of memory identity and narrative in Native Nostalgia |
| title_full | Aspects of memory identity and narrative in Native Nostalgia |
| title_fullStr | Aspects of memory identity and narrative in Native Nostalgia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Aspects of memory identity and narrative in Native Nostalgia |
| title_short | Aspects of memory identity and narrative in Native Nostalgia |
| title_sort | aspects of memory identity and narrative in native nostalgia |
| topic | UCTD Memory studies Cultural memory Collective memory Social memory Narrative identity Humanities theses SDG-04 Humanities theses SDG-10 Humanities theses SDG-11 Humanities theses SDG-16 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60368 |