New Contree: 1997 No 42

Contents

No. 42, November 1997

Editorial voice

• History as artefact and South African historians as jugglers of fictions, purveyors of snake oil, and other "suspect narratives". / Bottomley, J

Historiographical voice

• Die geding met die geheue: kontemporêre fiksie se bydrae tot teoretiese besinnings oor die historiografie. / Van Heerden, E
• Agency in South African historiography: reflections. / Saunders, C
• Relaxing the reflexes: reflections on Hordotus' "historical truth". / Allen, GR

National voice

• Privatising South Africa by dictum: a review. / Meyer, MJ
• Political and economical machinations: a new look at sir George Grey's plans for British Kaffrarian. / Tankard, K
• The Smythe administration and the Zulu Rebellion of 1906. / King, RJH
• Student struggles in tertiary education in South Africa during the 1980s. / Odhav, K

International voice

• The birth of Umkhonto We Sizwe: old and new sources. / Shubin, V
• "Forgetting the past" for "citizenship": barter and resentment in Martinique (1848 - 1946) / Cottias, M
• Black territories: identity, ethnicity and politics. / Leite, IB

Environmental voice

• Re-creation, tourism and historical presentation: the cases of Georgetown, Colorado (USA), and Gamkaskloof, Western Province (South Africa) considered. / Goetze, T

Critical voice

• Van Heerden, E. 1997. Postmodernisme en prosa: Vertelstrategieë in vyf verhale van Abraham H. de Vries. [Boek resensie] / Tempelhoff, J
• Lewsen, P. 1996. Reverberations. A memoir. [Book review] / Fraser, M
• Harris, V. 1997. Exploring archives: an introduction to archival ideas and practice in South Africa. [Book review] / Theron, B
• Dedering, T. 1997. Hate the old and follow the new: Khoekhoe and missionaries in early nineteenth-century Namibia. [Book review] / Luijks, C