Nostalgic waves from Soweto : poetic memories of the June 16th uprising / Solrha ; edited by Mindy Stanford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rachilo, Sol, author.

Contributor:

Stanford, Mindy, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Africa--History--Soweto Uprising, 1976--Poetry.

South Africa.

Soweto (South Africa)--Poetry.

Soweto (South Africa).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (100 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Grant Park, South Africa : African Perspectives Publishing, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Soweto during the 1970's was riven with violence and brutality, the brunt of which was borne by the young people of that period, who took the lead in the struggle against apartheid oppression. Himself a product of the era, Sol Rachilo turned both to science and to art as he strove to depict the atmosphere and the emotions of the people of those tumultuous times. Not relying solely on his own deeply engraved memories, he spent 18 months researching the events which swirled around the Morris Isaacson High School, a magnet for the activists and intellectuals of the time. The book especially highlight...

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; About Sol Rachilo; Foreword; Introduction; 'X'; The Signatories; Let's Recall; Boots in the Night; Lament; Child Crushed by Casspir; One of the Next Seven; The Creation of an Innocent Criminal; Eleventh Hour; The Black Cloth; Comrade Chris; Nomzamo; To Stompie; Soweto, I Salute You; Melody for a Father; Longing to be Loved; The Couple's Song; As Luck Would Have It; Uskhova Wasemasotshenie B.E.S.L.; Profession of Despair; Night Sweepers; What Lurks; Oliver Twist in Soweto; Baby Found in Plastic Bag; The Night She Passed On; Something to Live for

Matshidiso The Cripple at the Party; What Change is There?; Loose Cannons; My Soweto Dream; Looking Through the Hazy Glass; The Grave; The Tree by the River; The Torch; Caged in Your Mind; Awake but Not Alone; Dreaming of the Future; Paradise; Remember; But Once; Miracles Abound; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780992187545

0992187540

9780981439846

0981439845

OCLC:

830165446