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

Helena Pohlandt-McCormick
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  • Contents

  • Stats

  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright and Permissions
  • Acknowledgments
  • 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 1990s
      • 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
  • Notes
    • Chapter 1 Introduction "The Child Is Also Wondering What Happened to the Father"
    • Chapter 2 "I Heard There Was a Riot in Soweto . . . :" A Narrative of June 16, 1976
    • Chapter 3 Official Stories Telling Soweto, June 16, 1976—The Appropriation of the People's Story into Official Histories
    • Chapter 4 The Participants
    • Chapter 5 Afrikaans "We Are Fed the Crumbs of Ignorance with Afrikaans as a Poisonous Spoon"—Historical Context and Precipitating Factors
    • Chapter 6 "I Saw a Nightmare . . . :" Violence and the Construction of Memory
    • Chapter 7 Final Thoughts
    • Other Notes
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Keywords/Glossary
    • Bantu Education
    • Bizos, George
    • Black Consciousness / Black Consciousness Movement
    • Black Parents' Association (BPA)
    • Child / Childhood / Schoolchildren
    • Cillié Commission and Cillié Report
    • Fifty-Fifty Ruling
    • Mandela, Winnie
    • Mashinini, Tsietsi
    • Matlhare, Aaron Montoedi
    • Mazibuko, Seth
    • Mokoena, Aubrey Dundubele
    • Morobe, Murphy Mafison
    • Motapanyane, Tebello
    • Participant(s)
    • Pupils
    • Sizane, Zweli
    • South African Students' Movement (SASM)
    • South African Students' Organiszation (SASO)
    • Student(s) / Scholar(s)
    • Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa (TRC)
    • Tsotsi
    • Urban Bantu Council (UBC)
    • West Rand Bantu Administration Board (WRAB)
    • Yutar, Percy
    • Zoutpansberg Students' Organisation (ZOSO)
  • Bibliography
    • Books
    • Newspapers and Magazines
    • Government Publications and Archives
    • Court Cases
    • Films
    • Interviews
      • [Intro]
      • Website links
  • Archive
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Published: 2010
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780231503761 (ebook)
  • 9780231122207 (hardcover)
Series
  • Gutenberg-e
Subject
  • African

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