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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Charumbira, Ruramisai, 1967- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2015.
Collection:Reconsiderations in southern African history.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.