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National liberation in postcolonial Southern Africa : a historical ethnography of SWAPO's exile camps
- Title
- National liberation in postcolonial Southern Africa : a historical ethnography of SWAPO's exile camps / Christian A. Williams (University of the Free State, South Africa).
- Author
- Williams, Christian A.
- Publication
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- ©2015
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- Description
- xviii, 259 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- African studies series ; 132
- Uniform Title
- African studies series ; 132.
- Subjects
- Note
- Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Michigan, 2009, titled: Exile history: an ethnography of the SWAPO camps and the Namibian nation.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249) and index.
- Contents
- Part 1: Camp, nation, history. 1. Liberation movement camps and the past of the present in Southern Africa -- 2. Revisiting an image of a camp : remember Cassinga? -- Part 2: Camps and the formation of a nation -- 3. Living in exile : life and crisis at SWAPO's Kongwa Camp, 1964-1968 -- 4. Ordering the nation : SWAPO in Zambia, 1974-1976 -- 5. "The spy" and the camp : SWAPO in Angola, 1980-1989. -- Part 3: Camps and the production of history -- 6. Namibia's "wall of silence" : challenging national history in the international system -- 7. Reconciliation in Namibia? Narrating the past in a post-camp nation -- 8. The camp and the post-colony.
- Call Number
- Sc E 15-1823
- ISBN
- 9781107099340 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 110709934X (hardback : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2015015731
- OCLC
- 907931496
- Author
- Williams, Christian A., author.
- Title
- National liberation in postcolonial Southern Africa : a historical ethnography of SWAPO's exile camps / Christian A. Williams (University of the Free State, South Africa).
- Publisher
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- African studies series ; 132African studies series ; 132.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249) and index.
- Other Editions:
- Original thesis: Williams, Christian A. Exile history 2009 (OCoLC)651971654
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 15-1823