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| Title: | Narratives of New Brighton: representations of the Port Elizabeth township in official discourse, cultural memory, and public history |
| Author: | Baines, Gary |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Periodical: | African Studies |
| Volume: | 64 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Period: | December |
| Pages: | 243-261 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | urban history townships Urbanization and Migration History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Ethnic and Race Relations |
| External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00020180500355744 |
| Abstract: | Recurring themes are to be found in three narratives - official discourse, cultural memory and public history - constructed to represent New Brighton's history during the century or so of its existence. New Brighton was established in 1903 to rehouse Africans relocated from Port Elizabeth's inner city locations following the outbreak of bubonic plague. During its first 50 years or so, the authorities and Port Elizabeth's publicists took great pride in fêting New Brighton as a 'model' location. After 1952, New Brighton was regarded by the authorities, and especially the nationalist government, as an ANC stronghold and a site of opposition to South Africa's system of apartheid. In the postapartheid dispensation, this meaning has been reconfigured so that the township is now regarded as a site of struggle, a trope that represents the New Brighton public history. These official discourses have co-existed with personal and cultural memories in which New Brighton has been represented as a happy and close-knit community in the literary and visual representations of erstwhile residents. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
