Mourning Becomes by Liz Stanley

ISBN: 9781868144754 / 1868144755 - Mourning Becomes: Post/memory, Commemoration and the Concentration Camps of the South African War by Liz Stanley. Published by Wits University Press, 2008. Softcover. Used, Very Good condition. 303 pp.

This fascinating work challenges many of the accepted facts about the concentration camps run by the British during the South African War. The author demonstrates that much of what we have traditionally understood about these camps originates the testimony which was solicited, selected and published by key women activists within Boer proto-nationalist circles. Using detailed archival evidence, she shows that much of the history of the camps results from a deliberate imposition of 'post/memory' - a process by which what was 'remembered' was shaped and reshaped to support the development of a racialised nationalist framework.

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