"I saw a nightmare-- " doing violence to memory : the Soweto uprising, June 16, 1976

• Autore: Pohlandt-McCormick Helena
• Pubblicazione: [Place of publication not identified], : Columbia University Press, 2010
• Edizione: ACLS Humanities E-Book electronic edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource : ill
• Soggetto topico: Black people - South Africa - Politics and government
• Soggetto geografico: South Africa History Soweto Uprising, 1976; South Africa History Soweto Uprising, 1976 Personal narratives; Soweto (South Africa) History; Soweto (South Africa) Social conditions
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Prologue and Readers' Guide -- Introduction to the Electronic Space of this Book -- A few suggestions for navigating this website -- Hector Pieterson's Name -- Terminology: Black/African -- Digital Image Archive -- A Note on the Archive -- Summaries of Chapters -- Chapter 1: Introduction "The Child Is Also Wondering What Happened to the Father" -- [Epigraph] Overview -- Story Without End -- The Uprising: Soweto Erupts -- Author's Story -- Context of the 1990's Political Changes -- The Story in the Archive: Cillié Commission of Inquiry into the Riots at Soweto -- Creating a Space for Memory: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)-- Historiography of Soweto/Literature Review -- The City -- The Uprising -- Black Consciousness -- Cillié Commission -- The Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- [Intro] -- Violence -- Methodology and Conceptualization -- Shift in Perspective -- Context of Change and Violence -- Sources -- [Intro] -- Oral -- Documents -- Student Documents -- Police Statements -- Transcribed Oral Testimonies—Cillié Commission -- Transcribed Oral Testimonies—Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- Strengths and Weaknesses, or Memory and Violence -- Summary of Arguments -- [Intro] -- Solidarity in the Face of Ambiguity and Difference -- Afrikaans -- Black Consciousness -- The Apartheid Government and the African National Congress-- Violence -- Chapter 2: "I Heard There Was a Riot in Soweto . . . :" A Narrative of June 16, 1976 -- [Epigraph] A Winter Morning -- Warnings -- The March -- The Confrontation-- The Shooting -- [Intro] -- Tremor -- Evening -- Aftermath -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Official Stories Telling Soweto, June 16, 1976—The Appropriation of the People's Story into Official Histories -- [Epigraph] Introduction -- Responses to the Event -- [Intro] -- Immediate Reactions -- Early Accounts -- Secondary Discourses -- Part 1: Commission of Inquiry into the Riots at Soweto and Elsewhere (Cillié) from the 16 June, 1976 - 28 February, 1977 -- Genesis of the Cillié Commission -- Methods of the Cillié Commission -- Rhetoric and Argument -- Audience -- Privileged and Knowing Position of the Author -- Privileging of Narrative Time -- Considering Causes -- Representing Participants-- Means and Method of Appropriation/Exclusion -- Witnesses -- Student Participants -- Author Analysis: Witnesses -- Methods of Coercion -- Author Analysis: Statements -- Experts -- Part 2: Narrative of Resistance: The African National Congress (ANC) -- [Intro] -- Genesis of the ANC's Account -- Audience -- [Intro] -- Claiming Authority-- Rhetoric -- The ANC's Informants -- Narrative Time for the ANC -- Participants as Represented by the ANC: Heroes or Threats?-- Claiming Authority -- The ANC and Black Consciousness -- The ANC: What Really Happened—The Confrontation -- The ANC's Means and Method of Appropriation-- Part 3: Confronting Each Other: the ANC and the Cillié Commission -- Part 4: The Last Official Narrative: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) -- [Intro]-- Nature of the TRC Commission Hearings (as opposed to the Cillié Commission):-- Conclusion-- Chapter 4: The Participants -- [Epigraph] Introduction -- Life Histories: Four Voices -- [Intro] -- Beginnings-- Education -- Experience -- Family-- Status-- Shifting the Point of View -- [Intro] -- Invisible Women? The Gendered Nature of the Uprising-- Urban-Rural Connections—The Zoutpansberg Students' Organisation (ZOSO) -- Dissent, Division, Difference—Solidarity-- Identity and Representation-- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Afrikaans "We Are Fed the Crumbs of Ignorance with Afrikaans as a Poisonous Spoon"—Historical Context and Precipitating Factors -- [Epigraph] -- Perspectives on the Role of Afrikaans -- Afrikaans: Precipitating Factor? -- [Intro ] -- The Urban Bantu Council, UBC -- The State -- The Opposition in Parliament -- The ANC -- The Press -- "Not the True Cause . . . :" Analysis of the Literature -- Docile for Too Long:" The Cillié Report as a Record of Mounting Dissatisfaction over the Afrikaans Issue: Cillié Commission -- "To Hell with Boere Taal:" Student Voices-- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: "I Saw a Nightmare . . . :" Violence and the Construction of Memory -- [Epigraph] Introduction: Individual and Collective Memory, Violence, and Silence-- The Making of Memory: People, the State, the ANC, and Violence-- On Violence and the Body: The Dead-- The Disappeared-- The Wounded: " . . . But the Pain You Feel Alone"-- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: Final Thoughts
• Altri titoli varianti: "I Saw a Nightmare . . ."
• Titolo autorizzato: "I saw a nightmare-- " doing violence to memory : the Soweto uprising, June 16, 1976
• ISBN: 0-231-50376-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248296003316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: ACLS Gutenberg-e series.