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Fictioning Namibia as a space of desire : an excursion into the literary space of Namibia during colonialism, apartheid and the liberation struggle /
Modern-day Namibian history has largely been shaped by three major eras: German colonial rule, South African apartheid occupation, and the Liberation Struggle. It was, however, not only military conquest that laid the cornerstone for the colony, but also how the colony was imagined, the "dream&...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Basel, Switzerland :
Basler Afrika Bibliographien,
2019.
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| Colección: | Basel Southern Africa studies ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Producing Certain Spaces; Literature on and about Namibia; Literature List; Terms and Conditions; Looking Forward; 2. Social and Literary Space; From Relative to Social Space; The Social Space of Henri Lefebvre; Social Space and Literary Space; 3. The Colonial Era: War, Toil, and Diamonds; Introduction to the Texts; Emptied Landscapes; The Garden; The White Female Colonialist; 4. The Apartheid Era: The Trust in Maps and Guns; Introduction to the Texts; Emptied Landscapes
- Technologies of Conquest and Domination(De)Constructing the White Male Explorer; 5. The Namibian Moment: Learning to Sing; Introduction to the Text; Main Spaces of the Narrative; Resistance and Disobedience; The Resistance of One, the Resistance of Many; Merging the Past, Present, and Future; 6. Conclusion; Producing the 'Other' (and oneself); A Colonial Network of Spaces and Strategies; The Metropole in Crisis; A Root of the Metropolitan Crisis; Monologic and Dialogic Narratives; Bibliography; Index; Back cover