Trauma culture: Remembering and forgetting in the new South Africa

Memory, Trauma and World Politics: Reflections on the Relationship Between Past and Present

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 157-175

  Meskell, Lynn ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84998953492     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230627482     Document Type: Chapter

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