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Title:Setting up a dialogue: monuments as a means of 'writing back'
Author:Marschall, SabineISNI
Year:2003
Periodical:Historia: amptelike orgaan
Volume:48
Issue:1
Pages:309-325
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subject:monuments
Abstract:A variety of monuments that have been proposed recently in South Africa, are currently in the process of construction, or have just been completed. Different considerations have been offered for their necessity. One argument is the need for 'the other side of the story' to be told. It is considered necessary to have the record of events presented in as comprehensive a manner as possible. Those who were previously marginalized are now commemorated. In this article the focus is on the aesthetic dimension of monuments, a matter that seldom enjoys attention among planners of monuments or students of the subject. In particular there is a focus on the manner in which the postapartheid monuments respond to the older (colonial or apartheid era) monuments and how the meaning of new monuments gains in stature in the process of establishing a dialogue with the older monuments. Notes, ref., sum. in English (p. v), and Afrikaans. [Journal abstract]
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