Theatres of Struggle and the End of Apartheid / / Belinda Bozzoli.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Bozzoli, Belinda,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: International African Library : IAL
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748619412);This is a compelling 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."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- GLOSSARY -- ABBREVIATIONS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- 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 -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX