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Type:
Articles
Place:
Zimbabwe
Heroes Acre National Monument (Zimbabwe)
Date:
1998
1980--
Notes:
Illustrations.
Contents:
The postcolonial shift from the modern memorials of the nation-state -- Anti-memory and immediate memory -- The plurality of political origin myths -- Smoke from the barrel of the anti-colonial gun -- The moment of triumphalism -- Tribute, state memorialism and inscription on the landscape -- Remaking the inner circle: from state terror to the farmers' union -- Heroes Acre and postcolonial pastiche -- Fixed ceremonial, tensions and the fragility of commemoration -- The personal, the national and the moral high ground -- Tensions within the ruling party -- The popular commemoration of the opposition -- Quasi-nationalism -- Communal commemoration, inscriptions and victims of terror -- The cosmic trace of bloodshed -- Conclusion
