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Davis Stephen R. <1977-> |
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The ANC's war against apartheid : Umkhonto we Sizwe and the liberation of South Africa / / Stephen R. Davis |
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Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , 2018 |
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©2018 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (251 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Anti-apartheid movements - South Africa |
Government, Resistance to - South Africa |
South Africa History 1961-1994 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- A brief history of Umkhonto we Sizwe and the armed struggle -- "I am not prepared to answer at this stage" : history, evidence, and the Mamre camp, December 26-30, 1962 -- The sight of battle : visuality, history, and representations of the Wankie campaign, July 31-September 8, 1967 -- Losing the plot : mystery, narrativity, and investigation in Novo Catengue, May 1977-March 1979 -- Everyday life during wartime : experience, modes of writing, and the underground in Cape Town during the long decade of the 1980's -- Conclusion: making the struggle concrete: nationalist historiography at Freedom Park. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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For nearly three decades, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), waged a violent revolutionary struggle against the apartheid state in South Africa. Stephen Davis works with extensive oral testimonies and the heroic myths that were constructed after 1994 to offer a new history of this armed movement. Davis deftly addresses the histories that reinforce the legitimacy of the ANC as a ruling party, its longstanding entanglement with the South African Communist Party, and efforts to consolidate a single narrative of struggle and renewal in concrete museums and memorials. Davis shows that the history of MK is more complicated and ambiguous than |
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previous laudatory accounts would have us believe, and in doing so he discloses the contradictions of the liberation struggle as well as its political manifestations. |
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