The Diary of Maria Tholo
 First edition | |
| Author | Maria Tholo |
|---|---|
| Country | South Africa |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Diary |
| Publisher | Ravan Press |
Publication date | 1979 |
| ISBN | 978-0869751787 |
The Diary of Maria Tholo was a series of interviews with a South African resident of Soweto, Maria Tholo, which were published by Ravan Press as Tholo's 'diary' in 1979.[1]
Maria Tholo was interviewed each week by a researcher, Carol Hermer, over a year starting in February 1976. Hermer chose to present the material "in diary format [...] to lend immediacy to the events."[2]
The interviews spanned a period of time which included the Soweto uprising, in which police infamously fired on schoolchildren. Maria Tholo provided eyewitness testimony of the township rioting and its after-effects, juxtaposed with quotidian detail of her own immediate family life. This gave her account of the uprising "the ambivalence and complexity that history and hindsight sometimes erase".[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Barbara Fister (1995). "The Diary of Maria Tholo". Third World Women's Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-313-28988-0.
- ^ The Diary of Maria Tholo, p.ix. Quoted in Nahem Yousaf (2001). Apartheid Narratives. Rodopi. p. 176. ISBN 90-420-1516-0.
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