Research Catalog

Title

Theatres of struggle and the end of apartheid / Belinda Bozzoli.

Author

Bozzoli, Belinda.

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2004.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

International African Institute

Description

1 v.

Summary

"This is a study of the origins and trajectory of a legendary black uprising against apartheid - the Alexandra Rebellion of 1986. Using insights from the literature on collective action and social movements, it delves deep into the rebellion's inner workings. It examines how the residents of Alexandra - a poverty-stricken, segregated township in Johannesburg - manipulated and overturned the meanings of space, time and power in their sequestered world; how they used political theatre to convey, stage and dramatise their struggle; and how young and old residents generated differing ideologies and tactics, giving rise to a distinct form of generational politics. Theatres of Struggle asks the reader to enter into the world of the rebels, and to confront the moral complexity and social duress they experienced as they invented new social forms and violently attacked old ones."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

International African library ; 29

Uniform Title

International African library ; 29.

Subject

• Apartheid > Johannesburg
• Johannesburg (South Africa) > Race relations

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Place, space and frame -- 3. The failure of the state -- 4. Bounded revolt -- 5. Generations, resources and ideas -- 6. Commanding the territory -- 7. The private utopia -- 8. Realism and revolution -- 9. Nationalism and theatricality -- 10. From victory to defeat -- 11. Memory and forgetting -- 12. Epilogue.

ISBN

0748619410

OCLC

53912522

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library