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Original Articles

Performing History and Constructing ‘Culture’: Ronnie Govender's 1949 and the Romanticism of Historical Memory

Pages 235-246 | Received 23 Jul 2015, Accepted 12 Aug 2015, Published online: 25 Jun 2015

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