Where my dad was from he was quite a respected man
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12438754 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kharnita Mohamed (0000-0002-9024-9496, corresponding author), K Ratele (0000-0002-1688-5136) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 282-293 |
| Publication date | 2012-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Peace and Conflict Journal of Peace Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1078-1919 • E-ISSN: 1532-7949 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1037/a0029075 |
| OpenAlex | W2038001372 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 15 |
The aim of this article is to analyze the operation of nostalgia in the Apartheid Archive \nProject narratives. In total, a corpus of 138 narratives was read with nostalgia as a frame \nand 23 narratives were selected for further analysis in which the relationship between \nBlack subjects and parental figures were the focus. Themes that emerged were the role \nof silences, apartheid’s spatial configurations, transferred humiliation, parent’s powerlessness, \nand postapartheid efforts to undo the past. The article delves into children’s \ntraumatic remembrances of parental authority figures being addressed by representatives \nof the apartheid state and the resulting cognizance of themselves, as racialized \nsubjects materialize. To make a postapartheid self, the article shows, the memory of \nsubjection appears to rely on an ambivalent identification with the parental figure and \nbecomes the object of a nostalgia that oscillates dialectically between the dystopian \nrealities of apartheid racism and utopian remembrances of the family
Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Psychology · South African History and Culture
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |