| FB-51632-05 | Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Helena Pohlandt-McCormick | Stories of Exile: South African Resistance to Apartheid, 1960-1990 | 2/1/2006 - 1/31/2007 | $40,000.00 | Helena | | Pohlandt-McCormick | | | | University of Minnesota | Northfield | MN | 55057-1574 | USA | 2004 | African History | Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Research Programs | 40000 | 0 | 40000 | 0 |
To understand the exile experience in South Africa (1960-1990), I propose a fieldwork-based historical study of in-depth oral life histories, backed by archival research, with former political exiles representative of the several generations and multiple – gendered – experiences of exile, defined broadly as external political exile, internal exile, banishment and displacement, and as exile of the mind, political exclusion and psychological alienation. A history of the nature and experience of exile and of its association with loss and memory is timely and necessary if South Africa is to make a decisive break with the apartheid past – with its history of silencing individuals, traumatizing society, and deliberately distorting public memory. |