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A Place That Matters Yet (Paperback)
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A Place That Matters Yet (Paperback)
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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
"three-dimensional thinking," 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 postapartheid 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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