- Shula Marks, "The Role of the Humanities in Higher Education in South Africa', the First National Education Lecture, delivered at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 3 April 2000.
- 'Speech by the Minister of Education, Professor Kader Asmal, on the occasion of the Launch of the process to Streamline and Strengthen Curriculum 2005', Centurion, Tshwane, 30 January 2001.
- S. Marks, 'Rewriting South African History or the Hunt for Hintsa's Head', The Seventh Annual Bindoff Lecture, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, 12 March 1996. She recalled how, as 'a very junior lecturer in African History at SOAS', she had initiated a new special subject on 'African People and European Rule in Southern Africa'. This was the same year ( 1964) that Professor Trevor Roper had referred to African history as 'the meaningless gyrations of savage tribes'.
- Marks . 'Rewriting South African History' . 17 – 19 .
- Smith , K. 1988 . The Changing Past. Trends in South African Historical Writing , Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press . Chapter two;
- Saunders , C. 1988 . The Making of the South African Past; Major Historians on Race and Class , Cape Town and Johannesburg : David Phillip . Chapter four
- Macmillan , H. and Marks , S. , eds. 1989 . Africa and Empire: W. M. Macmillan, Historian and Social Critic , London : Macmillan .
- Saunders, Making of the South African Past, Chapters 8 and 9.
- Dubow , S. 1987 . “ 'Race, civilisation and culture: the elaboration of segregationist discourse in the inter-war years' ” . In The Politics of Race, Class and Nationalism in Twentieth Century South Africa , Edited by: Marks , S. and Trapido , S. London : Longman . Chapter Two in Ibid., Chapter 10;
- Saunders, Making of the South African Past, Chapter IS.
- 1970 . Reluctant Rebellion: The 1906-8 Disturbances in Natal , Oxford : Clarendon Press . could be seen as falling within this 'liberal Africanist tradition'.Marks's first major work
- Saunders, Making of the South African Past, Chapter Thirteen.
- Marks . “ 'Rewriting South African History' ” . 20
- Marks , S. and Atmore , A. , eds. 1980 . Economy and Society in Pre-Industrial South Africa , 3 London : Longman . 'Introduction' to
- Marks , S. and Rathbone , R. , eds. 1982 . Industrialisation and Social Change in South Africa. African Class Formation, Culture and Consciousness 1870-1930 , London : Longman . Marks and Atmore (eds), Economy and Society in Pre-Industrial South Africa;
- Marks , S. and Trapido , S. , eds. 1987 . The Politics of Race, Class and Nationalism in Twentieth Century South Africa , London : Longman .
- Marks , S. 1986 . The Ambiguities of Dependence in South Africa. Class, Nationalism and the State in twentieth century South Africa , 7 Johannesburg : Ravan Press .
- Ibid., p. 1.
- Prakash , G. , ed. 1995 . After Colonialism. Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements , 7 Princeton : Princeton University Press .
- Marks , S. 1987 . Not Either an Experimental Doll , 1 London : The Women's Press .
- Kantete , J. and Giliomee , H. 1992 . Transition to Democracy Through Transaction? Bilateral Negotiations between the ANC and NP in South Africa' . African Affairs , 91 ( 365 ) October : 515 – 542 .
- Nuttall , Sarah and Coetzee , Carli , eds. 1998 . Negotiating the Past. The Making of Memory in South Africa , Cape Town : Oxford University Press . For a discussion both of this general trend and of the particular examples cited here see
- Nerval , A. 1999 . 'Review Article: Truth and Reconciliation: The Birth of the Present and the Reworking of History' . Journal of Southern African Studies , 25 ( 3 ) September : 499 – 519 . The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has given rise to a substantial literature, some of which is reviewed in
- Jeffery , A. 1999 . The Truth about the Truth Commission , Johannesburg : South African Institute of Race Relations . A recent and controversial addition to that literature is
- Johnson , R. W. 1999 . 'Why There is No Way to Dispose of Painful History' . London Review of Books , 14 October Among the few favourable reviews is
- Lowenthal , D. 1998 . The Heritage Crusade and the Challenge of History , Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press . The leaflet produced in 1999 to promote the new Heritage Studies programme in the Graduate School for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand points out that there is 'an enormous demand for trained professionals to work in the fields of heritage and tourism', and goes on to list the History Workshop as one of the resources available at Wits to support the programme. For a theoretical discussion of 'Heritage' see
- Joyce , P. 'The End of Social History?' . 73 – 74 .
- Joyce , P. 1995 . 'The End of Social History?' . Social History , 20 ( 1 ) January : 73 – 91 .
- Bunn , D. 1994 . 'The Insistence on Theory: Three Questions for Megan Vaughan' . Social Dynamics , 20 ( 1 ) : 24 – 34 .
- Nerval , A. 1994 . 'The "Boerewors Curtain" and the "Metropole": Twenty Years of South African Studies' . South African Historical Journal , 31 November : 198 – 208 .
- Harries , P. 1994 . Work, Culture and Identity. Migrant Labourers in Mozambique and South Africa, c. 1890-1910 , xv – xvi . London : James Currey .
- Marks . 'Rewriting South African History' . 24 – 25 .
- Jones , G. Stedman . 1996 . 'The Determinist Fix: Some Obstacles to the Further Development of the Linguistic Approach to History in the 1990s' . History Workshop Journal , 42 : 19 – 35 .
- Hamilton , C. 1996 . 'The Future of the Past: New Trajectories' . South African Historical Journal , 35 November : 146 – 148 .
- Minkley , G. and Rassool , C. “ 'Orality, Memory, and Social History in South Africa' ” . In Negotiating the Past Edited by: Nuttall and Coetzee . 98
- Foner , Eric . 1995 . 'Report: Conference: Democracy, Popular Precedents, Popular Practice, Popular Culture. History Workshop, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 13-15 July 1994. We Must Forget the Past: History in the New South Africa' . South African Historical Journal , 32 May : 161 – 167 . Foner took the title for his article from a speech made by the then newly inaugurated President Mandela. This account is based partly on my own recollection of Marks's comments at the Conference. See also
- Although I first heard Marks relate this anecdote as a preface to her remarks at the History Workshop Conference in 1994, the incident is also cited in her 1996 lecture, 'Rewriting South African History', p. 2. The quotation reproduced here is taken from the latter version.
- Rich , P. 1994 . 'Is South African Radical History Becoming Irrelevant?' . South African Historical Journal , 31 November : 191 – 197 .
- Etherington , N. 'Fissures in the Post-Apartheid Academy' . 205 – 208 . see also the comments of
- Nuttall , Tim and Wright , John . 1998 . 'Exploring History with a Capital "H" ' . Current Writing , 10 ( 2 ) : 38
- Nuttall and Wright . 'Exploring History' . 41
- 16 December 1998 . “ 'Zulus Gain Place in Blood River History' ” . In The Star Internet Edition 16 December , Johannesburg
- See for example A. Bank and G. Minkley's Editorial to the 'pre-millennium issue' of Kronos, entitled, Genealogies of Space and Identity in Cape Town', Kronos, 25, (1998/1999), posted on the internet at www.uwc.ac.za/arts/ih/kronos/editorial.html. This is an interesting attempt to encompass and to meld the contributions of both postcolonial discourses and social history approaches to the history of Cape Town.
- Bunn . “ 'The Insistence on Theory' ” . 31 It may be recalled that van Onselen surprised many by his decision to diverge from normal practice and to publish his discussion of the methodology used in the book separately in journal articles.
- Chakrabarty , D. 1995 . “ 'Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History' ” . In ne Post-colonial Studies Reader , Edited by: Ashcroft , B. , Griffiths , G. and Tiffin , H. 383 – 388 . London and New York : Routledge .
- Engels , D. and Marks , S. , eds. 1994 . Contesting Colonial Hegemony, State and Society in Africa and India , London and New York : British Academy Press .
- Prakash , G. 1994 . 'Subaltern Studies as Postcolonial Criticism' . American Studies Review , 99 ( 5 ) December : 1475
- Chakrabarty , D. 'Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History' . 384 – 385 .
- Broadly speaking, this is the argument set out by Tim Nuttall and John Wright in the concluding sections of their thoughtful article, 'Exploring Beyond History with a Capital "H" ', pp. 54-57.
- Cobley , A. 1999 . 'Forgotten Connections, Unconsidered Parallels: A New Agenda for Comparative Research in Southern Africa and the Caribbean' . African Studies , 58 ( 2 ) December : 133 – 155 . My own work has picked up this theme and is seeking to promote a comparative project between the Caribbean and Southern Africa:
- Beinart , W. and Coates , P. , eds. 1995 . Environment and History. The Taming of Nature in the USA and South Africa , London, New York : Routledge . Among other studies, which can be seen as part of the burgeoning post-colonial comparative ethos in historical writing is
- Hofmeyr , I. 1994 . “ 'We Spend Our Years as a Tale That is Told': ” . In Oral Historical Narrative in A South African Chiefdom , 6 – 7 . Johannesburg : Witwatersrand University Press .
- Bunn . 'The Insistence on Theory' . 31 also cited in
- Hofmeyr . “ 'We Spend Our Years As a Tale That is Told' ” . 181
- Medalie , D. 1999 . ' "Keeping History Open": Studies in South African Literary History' . Journal of Soulhern African Studies , 25 ( 2 ) June : 303 – 310 . For an argument in similar vein see
- Keegan , T. 1996 . Colonial South Africa and the Origins of the Racial Order , Cape Town : Arlington and Leicester, David Philip, University Press of Virginia, Leicester University Press .
- Crais , C. 1992 . White Supremacy and Black Resistance in Preindustrial South Africa, the Making of the Colonial Order in the Eastern Cape , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
- Andrew Bank's original review of Keegan's book, entitled, 'Liberalism and Race' appeared in the new internet version of the Southern African Review of Books, (May 1998); Keegan's reply was appended to the original article under the heading Timothy Keegan Responds'. Both references can be found at www.uni-ulm.de/rturrell/ sarobnewhtm/keegan.html.
- Timothy Keegan Responds', p. 4.
- Marks , Shula . 2000 . “ 'White Masculinity: Jan Smuts, Race and the South African War' ” . British Academy . unpublished paper delivered to the
- Marks , S. , Edgar , R. and Sapire , H. 1999 . African Apocalypse, The Story of Nontetha Nkwenkwe, a Twentieth-Century South African Prophet , xii Athens and Johannesburg : Ohio University Press, Witwatersrand University Press . 'Foreword' by
- B. Mbenga 'Re: Staff Profiles at South African Universities #5', [email protected], posted 16 March 2000.
- Legassick , M. 1998 . 'Statement by the South African Historical Society on the implications of Curriculum 2005 for history teaching in schools' . Kleio , XXX : 6 – 10 .
- Marks . “ 'Rewriting South African History' ” . 26
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