CONTENTS: Preface p.7
Acronyms and abbreviations p.11
PART I
The ANC and the Struggle against Apartheid in Italy
CHAPTER 1
Studies on South Africa in Italy: A Historiographical Survey
ANTONIO PEZZANO p.17
CHAPTER 2
Italy and Apartheid South Africa: Between Innovation and
Ambivalence, 1976-1990
MARIA CRISTINA ERCOLESSI p.37
CHAPTER 3
The Anti-Apartheid Movement in Italy: Processes, Mechanisms and Heritage
CRISTIANA FIAMINGO p.53
PART II
The ANC in South Africa and Africa: Memories, Histories and
Narratives
CHAPTER 4
Forgetting and Remembering: Whose Struggle History Counts?
NOOR NIEFTAGODIEN p.81
CHAPTER 5
The Botswana Connection: The Re-invigoration of Confrontational
Politics in Thembisa Township, 1979-1990
TSHEPO MOLOI p.107
CHAPTER 6
“It Was Nice, but Life Was Difficult”: The Experiences of Tanzanian Women after South Africa’s Liberation
ARIANNA LISSONI AND MARIA SURIANO p.129
PART III
South African Literature and Art between Home and Exile
CHAPTER 7
Exile and Writing in Apartheid South Africa
ITALA VIVAN p.153
CHAPTER 8
“A Model for Knowledge”: Some Observations on William
Kentridge’s Drawings for Projection
MARIA DE VIVO p.171
CHAPTER 9
Poems of Struggle and Exile
MAKHOSAZANA XABA p.181
PART IV
Italian Archives and Testimonies
CHAPTER 10
South Africa and Italian Support for the Struggle against Apartheid
VINCENZO CURATOLA AND RAFFAELLA CHIODO KARPINSKY p.191
CHAPTER 11
Ubuntu. Reggio Emilia and South Africa: History of a Friendship
MIRCO CARRATTIERI AND GIANLUCA GRASSI p.201
Contributors p.215