Public Culture

An interdisciplinary journal of transnational cultural studies

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Volume 20, Number 1: The Public Life of History

Issue 54, Winter 2008

Guest Editor's Letter

The Public Life of History
Bain Attwood, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and Claudio Lomnitz

Doxa at Large

Passages to Freedom: The Politics of Racial Reconciliation in South Africa
Achille Mbembe
Red Mosque
Faisal Devji

The Public Life of History

How History Mattered: Sodomy Law and Marriage Reform in the United States
George Chauncey
Narrating the Neoliberal Moment: History, Journalism, Historicity
Claudio Lomnitz
Predicaments of Secular Histories
Neeladri Bhattacharya
In the Age of Testimony: The Stolen Generations Narrative, “Distance,” and Public History
Bain Attwood
Making History Public: Indigenous Claims to Settler States
Miranda Johnson
History as Confession: The Case of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Deborah Posel
The Public Life of History: An Argument out of India
Dipesh Chakrabarty

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Public Culture is a reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year in Fall, Winter, and Spring for the Society for Transnational Cultural Studies by Duke University Press. The journal's full archives are available online at Dukejournals.org.

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