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Amandla (1980) is a novel by the South African writer Miriam Tlali. It is a fiction about real events: the 1976 Soweto revolt and massacre. In this revolt, young people from Soweto (a Johannesburg suburb) rose up against the decision to make Afrikaans compulsory as a means of teaching in black schools.[1]
Context
Published in 1980 by the South African anti-apartheid publisher, Ravan Press, Amandla was the second English-language novel written by a black woman in apartheid South Africa (the first one, was another novel by Tlali), and was banned after its publication.[2]
It is one of four novels considered "Soweto novels", works of fiction depicting the June 1976 uprising. The others are Mongane Serote's To Every Birth its Blood (1981), A Ride on the Whirlwind (1981) by Sipho Sepamla and The Children of Soweto (1982) by Mbulelo Mzamane.[3]
Plot
"Amandla" is written from the perspective of various young revolutionaries of the time. Based on Tlali's experience as a Soweto resident in 1976, the novel depicts the uprising and its aftermath. Critics have highlighted three points about this novel:
- The way the author highlights Black Consciousness Movement's anti-apartheid activism.[4]
- Tlali's description of gender relations between men and women activists, and within the community in general.[5]
- The technique with which the novel integrates other discourses: dialogues, debates, speeches, pamphlets, interviews (as in Tlali's other novels: Mihloti and Soweto Stories), as well as conversations Tlali had with people who came to her to tell her their stories and life experience in the townships.[6]
References
- ^ "The June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising | South African History Online". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 2023-04-09.
- ^ Tlali, Miriam (1984). "Remove the chains: South African censorship and the black writer". Index on Censorship. 13 (6): 22–22. doi:10.1080/03064228408533807. ISSN 0306-4220.
- ^ Mzamane, M V (2007-09-27). "The life and times of Sipho Sydney Sepamla: A tribute". Tydskrif vir letterkunde. 44 (2): 240–246. doi:10.4314/tvl.v44i2.29804. ISSN 0041-476X.
- ^ Boswell, Barbara (2016). "Under the influence of … the Black Consciousness novel 'Amandla'". University of the Witwatersrand's News.
- ^ Boswell, Barbara (2013). "Black revolutionary masculinity in Miriam Tlali's "Amandla": Lessons for contemporary South Africa". Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 27 (1 (95)): 32–39. ISSN 1013-0950.
- ^ Androne, Mary Jane. "Writing apartheid Miriam Tlali's Soweto stories". ALT 31 Writing Africa in the Short Story: African Literature Today. ISBN 978-1-78204-196-2.