Buntman, Fran Lisa creator Fran Lisa Buntman, Karen Altschlager text sa Cambridge, UK ; New York Cambridge University Press 2003 monographic eng

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xviii, 340 pages colour illustrations: 24 cm Summary: "Robben Island prison in South Africa held thousands of black opponents of apartheid, including Nelson Mandela. This book reconstructs these political prisoners' resistance strategies to show how these men created a political and social order behind bars. Survival was their first goal; challenging apartheid was their true aim. So although Robben Island was designed to repress, it was continually transformed by its political inmates into a site of resistance. The book theorizes that, where material conditions permit, the most far-reaching and effective forms of resistance involve constructive political action that seeks to remake existing power relationships. This theory is demonstrated in three focuses of the book: the activism of Robben Islanders, the effects of political prisoner resistance on the apartheid state machinery, and comparative cases that illustrate various international instances of political prisoners' shaping both prisons and political orders."--Jacket Adult Fran Lisa Buntman. Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-327) and index. South Africa 323.0440968 BUNT 9780521 007825 RDA 241127 20241127120912.0 ENG