Narratives of New Brighton: Representations of the Port Elizabeth township in official discourse, cultural memory, and public history

TitleNarratives of New Brighton: Representations of the Port Elizabeth township in official discourse, cultural memory, and public history
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2005
AuthorsGary Baines
JournalAfrican Studies
Volume64
Issue2
Pagination243-261
ISSN00020184
Abstract

The article discusses certain multicultural, multilinguistic and multiracial communities that have become symbols of the peaceful co-existence of groups that the apartheid state was intent on destroying in South Africa. The decision by the post-apartheid state in 1994 that Triomf revert to its former name amounted to an attempt to appropriate the memory of Sophiatown for the new master nationalist narrative.

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DOI10.1080/00020180500355744
Short TitleNarratives of New Brighton