Imagining a nation : History and memory in making Zimbabwe / Ruramisai Charumbira.

By: Charumbira, Ruramisai, 1967- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Reconsiderations in southern African historyPublisher: Charlottesville, [Virginia] ; London, [England] : University of Virginia Press, 2015Copyright date: 2015Description: 1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813938233Subject(s): Nationalism and collective memory -- Zimbabwe | Sex role -- History -- Zimbabwe | Sexism -- History -- Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe -- Race relations -- History | Zimbabwe -- Colonial influenceGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Imagining a nation : history and memory in making Zimbabwe.DDC classification: 968.9 LOC classification: DT2908 | .C43 2015Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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