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table of contents
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: the shadow of a young woman
- Young women in the liberation struggle
- Picturing the struggle
- Notes
- 1. A methodology for fragments: voice, speech and silence
- Introduction
- Voice
- Speech
- Silence
- Conclusions
- Notes
- 2. The Soweto Eleven and the sayable: speaking about the struggle
- Introduction
- Speaking about the struggle
- Youth on trial
- The sayable
- A popular house
- Being heard from the margins
- Silence in court
- Conclusions
- Notes
- 3. Witnessing, detention and silence: speech as struggle
- Introduction
- Trial by talk
- Silent witnesses
- ‘Well, I decided to talk’
- Beauty queens and the struggle
- Conclusions
- Notes
- 4. Stories of life and death: the struggle to speak
- Introduction
- Speaking up
- Parade of violence
- Breaking silence
- Emergent voices
- Speaking of detention
- Makhoere in ‘mid-air’
- From repression to expression
- Lists of death
- ‘The documentary history of the youth by the youth’
- ‘Modise has spoken out’
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Conclusion: shadow histories
- Image and word
- Telling stories differently
- The fragment
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index