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Imagining a nation : history and memory in making Zimbabwe /

"In Imagining a Nation, Ruramisai Charumbira analyzes competing narratives of the founding of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe constructed by political and cultural nationalists both black and white since occupation in 1890. The book uses a wide array of sources--including archives, oral histories, and a nati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Charumbira, Ruramisai, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2015.
Colección:Reconsiderations in southern African history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Far from the tree: appropriations of ethnic memory and other frontier encounters
  • War medals, gendered trials, ordinary women, and Nehandas to remember
  • Remembering Rhodes, commemorating occupation, and selling memories abroad
  • A country fit for white people: the power of the dead in Mazoe settler memory
  • Re-membering African masculine founding myths in the time of colonialism
  • African autobiography: collective memory and the myths of conquered peoples
  • Educated political prisoners, a guerrilla matron, and the gendered pursuit of independence
  • Conclusion: an acre of land for heroes of the land.