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The Unbearable Whiteness of Being : Farmers� Voices from Zimbabwe

The history of colonial land alienation, the grievances fuelling the liberation war, and post-independence land reforms have all been grist to the mill of recent scholarship on Zimbabwe. Yet for all that the countryís white farmers have received considerable attention from academics and journalists...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pilossof, Rory
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Weaver Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:The history of colonial land alienation, the grievances fuelling the liberation war, and post-independence land reforms have all been grist to the mill of recent scholarship on Zimbabwe. Yet for all that the countryís white farmers have received considerable attention from academics and journalists, the fact that they have always played a dynamic role in cataloguing and representing their own affairs has gone unremarked. It is this crucial dimension that Rory Pilossof explores in The Unbearable Whiteness of Being. His examination of farmersí voices ñ in The Farmer magazine, in memoirs, and in.
Item Description:Back cover.
Physical Description:1 online resource (282 pages).
ISBN:9781779221971