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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2015.
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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.