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"I saw a nightmare-- ": doing violence to memory : the Soweto uprising, June 16, 1976
Helena Pohlandt-McCormick-
Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright and Permissions
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Acknowledgments
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Prologue and Readers' Guide
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Introduction to the Electronic Space of this Book
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A few suggestions for navigating this website
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Hector Pieterson's Name
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Terminology: Black/African
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Digital Image Archive
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A Note on the Archive
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Summaries of Chapters
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Chapter 1 Introduction "The Child Is Also Wondering What Happened to the Father"
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[Epigraph]
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Overview
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Story Without End
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The Uprising: Soweto Erupts
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Author's Story
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Context of the 1990s
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Political Changes
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The Story in the Archive: Cillié Commission of Inquiry into the Riots at Soweto
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Creating a Space for Memory: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
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Historiography of Soweto / Literature Review
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The City
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The Uprising
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Black Consciousness
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Cillié Commission
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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[Intro]
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Violence
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Methodology and Conceptualization
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Shift in Perspective
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Context of Change and Violence
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Sources
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[Intro]
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Oral
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Documents
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Student Documents
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Police Statements
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Transcribed Oral Testimonies—Cillié Commission
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Transcribed Oral Testimonies—Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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Strengths and Weaknesses, or Memory and Violence
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Summary of Arguments
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[Intro]
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Solidarity in the Face of Ambiguity and Difference
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Afrikaans
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Black Consciousness
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The Apartheid Government and the African National Congress
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Violence
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Chapter 2 "I Heard There Was a Riot in Soweto . . . :" A Narrative of June 16, 1976
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[Epigraph]
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A Winter Morning
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Warnings
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The March
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The Confrontation
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The Shooting
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[Intro]
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Tremor
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Evening
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Aftermath
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Conclusion
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Chapter 3 Official Stories Telling Soweto, June 16, 1976—The Appropriation of the People's Story into Official Histories
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[Epigraph]
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Introduction
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Responses to the Event
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[Intro]
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Immediate Reactions
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Early Accounts
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Secondary Discourses
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Part 1 Commission of Inquiry into the Riots at Soweto and Elsewhere (Cillié) from the 16 June, 1976 - 28 February, 1977
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Genesis of the Cillié Commission
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Methods of the Cillié Commission
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Rhetoric and Argument
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Audience
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Privileged and Knowing Position of the Author
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Privileging of Narrative Time
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Considering Causes
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Representing Participants
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Means and Method of Appropriation/Exclusion
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Witnesses
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Student Participants
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Author Analysis: Witnesses
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Methods of Coercion
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Author Analysis: Statements
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Experts
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Part 2 Narrative of Resistance: The African National Congress (ANC)
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[Intro]
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Genesis of the ANC's Account
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Audience
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[Intro]
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Claiming Authority
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Rhetoric
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The ANC's Informants
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Narrative Time for the ANC
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Participants as Represented by the ANC: Heroes or Threats?
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Claiming Authority
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The ANC and Black Consciousness
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The ANC: What Really Happened—The Confrontation
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The ANC's Means and Method of Appropriation
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Part 3 Confronting Each Other: the ANC and the Cillié Commission
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Part 4 The Last Official Narrative: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
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[Intro]
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Nature of the TRC Commission Hearings (as opposed to the Cillié Commission):
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Conclusion
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Chapter 4 The Participants
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[Epigraph]
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Introduction
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Life Histories: Four Voices
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[Intro]
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Beginnings
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Education
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Experience
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Family
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Status
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Shifting the Point of View
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[Intro]
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Invisible Women? The Gendered Nature of the Uprising
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Urban-Rural Connections—The Zoutpansberg Students' Organisation (ZOSO)
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Dissent, Division, Difference—Solidarity
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Identity and Representation
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Conclusion
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Chapter 5 Afrikaans "We Are Fed the Crumbs of Ignorance with Afrikaans as a Poisonous Spoon"—Historical Context and Precipitating Factors
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[Epigraph]
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Perspectives on the Role of Afrikaans
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Afrikaans: Precipitating Factor?
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[Intro]
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The Urban Bantu Council, UBC
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The State
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The Opposition in Parliament
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The ANC
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The Press
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"Not the True Cause . . . :" Analysis of the Literature
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"Docile for Too Long:" The Cillié Report as a Record of Mounting Dissatisfaction over the Afrikaans Issue: Cillié Commission
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"To Hell with Boere Taal:" Student Voices
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Conclusion
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Chapter 6 "I Saw a Nightmare . . . :" Violence and the Construction of Memory
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[Epigraph]
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Introduction: Individual and Collective Memory, Violence, and Silence
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The Making of Memory: People, the State, the ANC, and Violence
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On Violence and the Body: The Dead
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The Disappeared
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The Wounded: " . . . But the Pain You Feel Alone"
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Conclusion
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Chapter 7 Final Thoughts
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Notes
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Chapter 1 Introduction "The Child Is Also Wondering What Happened to the Father"
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Chapter 2 "I Heard There Was a Riot in Soweto . . . :" A Narrative of June 16, 1976
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Chapter 3 Official Stories Telling Soweto, June 16, 1976—The Appropriation of the People's Story into Official Histories
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Chapter 4 The Participants
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Chapter 5 Afrikaans "We Are Fed the Crumbs of Ignorance with Afrikaans as a Poisonous Spoon"—Historical Context and Precipitating Factors
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Chapter 6 "I Saw a Nightmare . . . :" Violence and the Construction of Memory
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Chapter 7 Final Thoughts
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Other Notes
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List of Abbreviations
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Keywords/Glossary
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Bantu Education
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Bizos, George
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Black Consciousness / Black Consciousness Movement
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Black Parents' Association (BPA)
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Child / Childhood / Schoolchildren
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Cillié Commission and Cillié Report
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Fifty-Fifty Ruling
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Mandela, Winnie
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Mashinini, Tsietsi
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Matlhare, Aaron Montoedi
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Mazibuko, Seth
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Mokoena, Aubrey Dundubele
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Morobe, Murphy Mafison
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Motapanyane, Tebello
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Participant(s)
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Pupils
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Sizane, Zweli
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South African Students' Movement (SASM)
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South African Students' Organiszation (SASO)
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Student(s) / Scholar(s)
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa (TRC)
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Tsotsi
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Urban Bantu Council (UBC)
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West Rand Bantu Administration Board (WRAB)
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Yutar, Percy
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Zoutpansberg Students' Organisation (ZOSO)
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Bibliography
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Books
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Newspapers and Magazines
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Government Publications and Archives
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Court Cases
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Films
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Interviews
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[Intro]
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Website links
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Archive
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Published: 2010
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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