Mountain Dialogues - Softcover

Waters, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804010188 ISBN 13: 9780804010184

Publisher: OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1999

Synopsis

A compelling study of the origins and trajectory of one of the legendary black uprisings against apartheid, Theatres of Struggle and the End of Apartheid draws on insights gained from the literature on collective action and social movements. It delves into the Alexandra Rebellion of 1986 to reveal its inner workings. Belinda Bozzoli's aim is to examine 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. She explains how they used political theater to convey, stage, and dramatize 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 and the End of Apartheid 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. It is an important study of collective action that will be of great interest to sociologists and to scholars of Africa, particularly to those interested in the antiapartheid struggle.

About this title

Synopsis:

Eighteen essays by writer Waters (author of the novels People of the Valley , The Man Who Killed the Deer , and The Woman at Otowi Crossing ), which reflect on the spiritual and mystical aspects of life in the mountains. The essays touch upon such topics as a comparison of the spiritual teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi and Carl Jung, the inner life

About the Author:

Frank Waters (1902-1995), one of the finest chroniclers of the American Southwest, wrote twenty-eight works of fiction and nonfiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0804010188
• ISBN 13: 9780804010184
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250