National liberation in postcolonial Southern Africa : an historical ethnography of SWAPO's exile camps / Christian A. Williams (University of the Free State, South Africa).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Christian A., author.

Series:

African studies series ; 132.

African studies series ; 132

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

SWAPO--History.

SWAPO.

National liberation movements--Namibia--History.

National liberation movements.

Exiles--Namibia--Social conditions.

Exiles.

Exiles--Africa, Southern--Social conditions.

Memory--Political aspects--Namibia.

Memory.

Memory--Political aspects.

Social conditions.

History.

Namibia--History--1946-1990.

Namibia.

Southern Africa.

Physical Description:

xviii, 259 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Michigan, 2009, titled: Exile history: an ethnography of the SWAPO camps and the Namibian nation.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249) and index.

Other Edition:

Original thesis: Williams, Christian A. 2009

ISBN:

9781107099340

110709934X

OCLC:

907931496