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作       者:Byala, Sara

出  版  社:University of Chicago Press

出版时间:2013-06-15

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A Place That Matters Yet unearths the little-known story of Johannesburg's MuseumAfrica, a South African history museum that embodies one of the most dynamic and fraught stories of colonialism and postcolonialism, its life spanning the eras before, during, and after apartheid. Sara Byala, in examining this story, sheds new light not only on racism and its institutionalization in South Africa but also on the problems facing any museum that is charged with navigating colonial history from a postcolonial perspective.?Drawing on thirty years of personal letters and public writings by museum founder John Gubbins, Byala paints a picture of a uniquely progressive colonist, focusing on his philosophical notion of "e;three-dimensional thinking,"e; which aimed to transcend binaries and thus-quite explicitly-racism. Unfortunately, Gubbins died within weeks of the museum's opening, and his hopes would go unrealized as the museum fell in line with emergent apartheid politics. Following the museum through this transformation and on to its 1994 reconfiguration as a post-apartheid institution, Byala showcases it as a rich-and problematic-archive of both material culture and the ideas that surround that culture, arguing for its continued importance in the establishment of a unified South Africa.
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Title Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

One. Two Worlds Collide: John Gaspard Gubbins in South Africa, 1902–1924

Two. The Founding Vision: John Gaspard Gubbins and the Dream of a City’s Treasure, 1924–1935

Three. Becoming “Treasures and Trash”: The Africana Museum in the Johannesburg Public Library, 1935–1977

Four. “Determined to Be Relevant”: The Museum Reimagined, 1977–1994

Five. On Display and in Storage: Museums and Archives in Postapartheid South Africa

Conclusion. The Enduring Struggle: The Utility of a Colonial institution in the Postcolonial World

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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