202 Pages
46 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
202 Pages
46 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
Afterimages of Apartheid shows how photographs of the past can be mobilised as a critical tool for understanding the ongoing effects of apartheid in contemporary South Africa.
Through close readings of significant images made during and after apartheid, the book shows how photography works as a means of documentation, commemoration, and resistance. Written by one of South Africa’s leading... Read more
Introduction: Against Impunity 1. Seeing Sharpeville 2. States of Emergency 3. Wounding Apertures 4. Exhuming Apartheid 5. Resistance and Resurgence 6. Refusing Transitional Time
Conclusion: Call to the Living
Biography
Kylie Thomas is a Senior Lecturer in the School of History and the Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork, Ireland, and a Guest Researcher at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the Netherlands.
