| Description |
1 online resource (xliv, 268 pages) |
| Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. African Studies
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 offer a new history of this armed movement. Davis deftly addresses the histories that reinforce the legitimacy of the ANC as a ruling party, its longstanding entanglement with the South African Communist Party, and efforts to consolidate a single narrative of struggle and renewal in concrete museums and memorials. Davis shows that the history of MK is more complicated and ambiguous than previous laudatory accounts would have us believe, and in doing so he discloses the contradictions of the liberation struggle as well as its political manifestations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 21, 2018) |
| Subject |
Umkhonto we Sizwe (South Africa) -- History
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African National Congress -- History
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| SUBJECT |
African National Congress fast |
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Umkhonto we Sizwe (South Africa) fast |
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Anti-apartheid movements -- South Africa.
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Government, Resistance to -- South Africa
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
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HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- General.
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Anti-apartheid movements
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Government, Resistance to
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| SUBJECT |
South Africa -- History -- 1961-1994. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125481
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| Subject |
South Africa
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017053535 |
| ISBN |
9780253032300 |
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025303230X |
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0253032288 |
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9780253032287 |
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