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Imagining the city : memories and cultures in Cape Town / edited by Sean Field, Renate Meyer & Felicity Swanson.

Title
Imagining the city : memories and cultures in Cape Town / edited by Sean Field, Renate Meyer & Felicity Swanson.
Publication
Cape Town : HSRC Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Field, Sean
  • Meyer, Renate.
  • Swanson, Felicity.
Description
viii, 240 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Memory > Social aspects > Cape Town
  • Memory > Political aspects > Cape Town
  • Oral history > Cape Town
  • Group identity > Cape Town
  • Popular culture > Cape Town
  • Cape Town (South Africa) > Social life and customs
  • Cape Town (South Africa) > History
  • Cape Town (South Africa) > Social conditions
  • Cape Town (South Africa) > Race relations
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also available online on the World Wide Web.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Sites of memory in Langa / Sean Field -- 2. So there I sit in a Catch-22 situation : remembering and imagining trauma in the District Six Museum / Sofie M.M.A. Geschier -- 3. Between waking and dreaming : living with urban fear, paradox and possibility / Renate Meyer -- 4. The quickest way to move on is to go back : bomb blast survivors' narratives of trauma and recovery / Anastasia Maw -- 5. Where is home? : transnational migration and identity amongst Nigerians in Cape Town / Iyonawan Masade -- 6. Catch with the eye : stories of Muslim food in Cape Town / Gabeba Baderoon -- 7. Julle kan ma New York toe gaan, ek bly in die Manenberg : an oral history of jazz in Cape Town from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s / Colin Miller -- 8. Da struggle kontinues into the 21st century : two decades of nation-conscious rap in Cape Town / Ncedisa Nkonyeni -- 9. Changing nature : working lives on Table Mountain, 1980-2000 / Louise Green -- 10. Language of the eyes : stories of contemporary visual art practice in Cape Town / Thabo Manetsi and Renate Meyer -- 11. Die SACS kom terug : intervarsity rugby, masculinity and white identity at the University of Cape Town, 1960s-1970s / Felicity Swanson.
ISBN
  • 9780796921796
  • 0796921792
OCLC
123535832
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library