TY - JOUR
AU - White, Landeg
AB - Forms of Resistance: Songs and Perceptions of Power in Colonial Mozambique LEROY VAIL and LANDEG WHITE "Do you know, my son," Papa spoke ponderously, and gesticulated a long time before every word. "The most difficult thing to bear is that feeling of complete emptiness ... and one suffers very much ... , very very very much. One grows with so much bottled up inside, but afterwards it is difficult to scream, you know.... " Mama was going to object, but Papa clutched her shoulder firmly. "It's nothing, mother, but, you know, our son believes that people don't mount wild horses, and that they only make use of the hungry docile ones. Yet when a horse goes wild it gets shot down, and it's all finished. But tame horses die every day­ as long as they can stand on their feet."! THESE WORDS ARE FROM Bernado Honwana's "Papa, Snake, and I." That story describes with warmth and great subtlety the effects on a small boy of growing up in colonial Mozambique with the feeling, and then suddenly the clear knowledge, that his father is a weak, exploited man who does nothing to resist his exploitation. The setting, as for most 
TI - Forms of Resistance: Songs and Perceptions of Power in Colonial Mozambique
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/88.4.883
DA - 1983-10-01
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SP - 883
EP - 919
VL - 88
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
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