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Fractured Lives (Paperback, New)
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Fractured Lives (Paperback, New)
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Fractured Lives is a memoir of one woman's experiences as a
documentary filmmaker covering the wars in southern Africa during
the 1980s and 1990s. Part autobiography, part history, part social
commentary and part war story, it offers a female perspective on a
traditionally male subject. Growing up in South Africa in a
politically active family, Toni went to Britain as an exile in 1965
in the wake of the famous Rivonia Trial, and in the years to
follow, became a filmmaker. Despite constant difficulties fighting
for funding and commissions from television broadcasters, and the
prejudices of working in a male-dominated industry, Toni made
several remarkable films in Mozambique and Angola. These bear
witness to the silent victims of war, particularly the women and
children. Fractured Lives paints the changing landscape of southern
Africa: Namibian independence and the end of the war in Mozambique
bring hope - but also despondency. Yet there is also the
possibility of redemption, of building new lives for the victims of
war. In its final chapters, Fractured Lives traces the power of
survival and the opportunities for new beginnings. Fractured Lives
concludes with Toni's return to South Africa after nearly three
decades in exile. However, the joy following the demise of
apartheid is tempered by the poignancy of returning to a place that
for so long had existed in her dreams alone and the realization
that home will forever lie somewhere else.
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