Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I FROM AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE
5. CHAPTER 1 Social Theory and Making Sense of Africa 13
6. CHAPTER 2 History by Word of Mouth: Linking Past and Present through Oral Memory 27
7. CHAPTER 3 Historical Memory and Representation of New Nations in Africa 53
8. CHAPTER 4 Memory, History and Historiography of Congo-Zaïre 67
9. CHAPTER 5 Remembering the Past, Reaching for the Future Aspects of African Historical Memory in an International Context 88
10. CHAPTER 6 Remembering Conflict: The Centenary Commemoration of the South African War of 1899–1902 as a Case Study 104
11. CHAPTER 7 From Public History to Private Enterprise: The Politics of Memory in the New South Africa 121
12. CHAPTER 8 Remembering with the Future in Mind 144
13. Part II FROM AN INTERCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
14. CHAPTER 9 Holocaust Experience and Historical Sense Generation from a German Perspective 165
15. CHAPTER 10 Ayodhya, Memory, Myth Futurizing the Past from an Indian Perspective 185
16. CHAPTER 11 Human Suffering and Forgiveness: A Dialogue with Kim Dae-jung from an East Asian Perspective 193
17. Part III TEXTS FROM THE PRAXIS OF MEMORY, TRAUMA, FORGIVENESS AND HEALING
18. CHAPTER 12 Remorse, Forgiveness and Rehumanization: Stories from South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission 207
19. CHAPTER 13 Healing from Auschwitz and Mengele’s Experiments 227
20. Notes on Contributors 235
21. Index 239