LEADER 03009nam 2200505 450 001 9910795556803321 005 20230814235437.0 010 $a0-253-03230-X 035 $a(CKB)4340000000248599 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5313103 035 $a(OCoLC)1030761748 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse67778 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5313103 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11519562 035 $a(OCoLC)1010659019 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000248599 100 $a20180317h20182018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe ANC's war against apartheid $eUmkhonto we Sizwe and the liberation of South Africa /$fStephen R. Davis 210 1$aBloomington, Indiana :$cIndiana University Press,$d2018. 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (251 pages) 311 $a0-253-03229-6 311 $a0-253-03228-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $aFor 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 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. 606 $aAnti-apartheid movements$zSouth Africa 606 $aGovernment, Resistance to$zSouth Africa 607 $aSouth Africa$xHistory$y1961-1994 615 0$aAnti-apartheid movements 615 0$aGovernment, Resistance to 676 $a322.420968 700 $aDavis$b Stephen R.$f1977-$01465204 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795556803321 996 $aThe ANC's war against apartheid$93675089 997 $aUNINA