Robben Island, Hell-Hole: Reminiscences of a Political Prisoner in South Africa
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Robben Island, Hell-Hole
ENISBN: 9780865430099 bzw. 0865430098, in Englisch, Africa World Press, Inc.
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Robben Island, Hell-Hole: Reminiscences of a Political Prisoner in South Africa
EN USISBN: 0865430098 bzw. 9780865430099, in Englisch, Africa World Press, gebraucht.
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africa,african,history,human rights,humanities,international and world politics,political science,politics and government,politics and social sciences,social sciences, Robben Island, Hell-Hole : Reminiscences of a Political Prisoner in South Africa, From amongst the budding crop of talented writers in Azania (South Africa), Moses Dalmini has produced one of the best accounts of the harsh realities of the Black man's life in that tortured country. Encapsulated in an account of his imprisonment on the infamous Robben Island, he has captured in a gripping and enraging account all the violence, brutality, degradation and dehumanisation of a colonialism and racialism that could only be viewed as something absurd, even comic, were it not for the horrendous distortions that it wrought in the lives both of the victims and its perpetrators. His story of the brutalities underlines the central dilemma of the black-white relationship; on the one hand, of a racialism so blind in its fury and hatred that it can only devour itself as his story shows; and on the other of a people driven to the depths of despair and yet spurred to revolutionary struggle by a simple yearning for dignity and compassion. Prison in the conditions of oppression in a acountry like South Africa- as indeed in most third World countries - is a place where you are stripped of every vestige of human dignity - debased, demoralosed, dehumanised, so that your spirit is broken to accept the perverted logic of the oppressor. It's like being locked in the same room forever with a torturer whose untrammelled powers of hate and contempt degrade you with every concevable human atrocity. Such was Robben Island - 11 kilometers in the Atlantic off Cape Town, mostly of.
africa,african,history,human rights,humanities,international and world politics,political science,politics and government,politics and social sciences,social sciences, Robben Island, Hell-Hole : Reminiscences of a Political Prisoner in South Africa, From amongst the budding crop of talented writers in Azania (South Africa), Moses Dalmini has produced one of the best accounts of the harsh realities of the Black man's life in that tortured country. Encapsulated in an account of his imprisonment on the infamous Robben Island, he has captured in a gripping and enraging account all the violence, brutality, degradation and dehumanisation of a colonialism and racialism that could only be viewed as something absurd, even comic, were it not for the horrendous distortions that it wrought in the lives both of the victims and its perpetrators. His story of the brutalities underlines the central dilemma of the black-white relationship; on the one hand, of a racialism so blind in its fury and hatred that it can only devour itself as his story shows; and on the other of a people driven to the depths of despair and yet spurred to revolutionary struggle by a simple yearning for dignity and compassion. Prison in the conditions of oppression in a acountry like South Africa- as indeed in most third World countries - is a place where you are stripped of every vestige of human dignity - debased, demoralosed, dehumanised, so that your spirit is broken to accept the perverted logic of the oppressor. It's like being locked in the same room forever with a torturer whose untrammelled powers of hate and contempt degrade you with every concevable human atrocity. Such was Robben Island - 11 kilometers in the Atlantic off Cape Town, mostly of.
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