Mapping My Way Home
MAPPING MY WAY HOME
Activism, Nostalgia, and the Downfall of Apartheid South Africa
by STEPHANIE J. URDANG
MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS
New York
Copyright © 2017 by Stephanie J. Urdang
All Rights Reserved
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ISBN paper: 978-1-58367-667-7
ISBN cloth: 978-1-58367-668-4
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Contents
3. “You Have to Learn to Think for Yourself”
5. “You Can Make More of a Difference Outside”
6. Slowly, Haltingly, I Became Acclimatized
8. We Took Our Cues from the Liberation Movements
11. “Visits Like Yours Build Bridges”
13. “We Can’t Stop Until It’s Over”
14. Can I Take My Inner Calm Back with Me?
16. “I Will Not Have to Prove It Again”
19. “You Will Leave from Bissau”
20. “Now I Need to Believe in Myself”
21. “She Doesn’t Know What She Fought For”
22. “This Very Day Is South Africa’s Pidgiguiti”
24. Across the Border from Home-Home
26. “I Will Give My Own Life If Necessary”
27. The Ripple Effect of the War
28. “Define Your Terms, Comrade!”
29. “I Am a Visitor to My Past”
30. A Serious, Full-Time Job in the Movement
31. “How Much Does She Weigh?”
33. “Night Is Turning into Day”
34. “Are You Planning to Return?”
35. No Longer the “Skunk of the World”
36. “Apartheid Is Over but the Struggle Is Not”
Epilogue: “The Fabric of the Nation Is Splitting at the Seams”