The ANC's war against apartheid : Umkhonto we Sizwe and the liberation of South Africa /

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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 of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Davis, Stephen R., 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. African Studies.
Subjects:
Umkhonto we Sizwe (South Africa) > History.
African National Congress > History.
African National Congress
Umkhonto we Sizwe (South Africa)
1961-1994
Anti-apartheid movements > South Africa.
Government, Resistance to > South Africa.
Mouvements anti-apartheid > Afrique du Sud.
Résistance au gouvernement > Afrique du Sud.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Advocacy.
HISTORY > Africa > South > General.
Anti-apartheid movements
Government, Resistance to
South Africa > History > 1961-1994.
Afrique du Sud > Histoire > 1961-1994.
South Africa
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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 1980s
  • Conclusion: making the struggle concrete: nationalist historiography at Freedom Park.

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