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Author Charumbira, Ruramisai, 1967- author.

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

Publication Info. Charlottesville, [Virginia] ; London, [England] : University of Virginia Press, 2015.
2015

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Description 1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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Series Reconsiderations in Southern African History
Reconsiderations in southern African history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Nationalism and collective memory -- Zimbabwe.
Sex role -- History -- Zimbabwe.
Sexism -- History -- Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe -- Race relations -- History.
Zimbabwe -- Colonial influence.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Charumbira, Ruramisai, 1967-. Imagining a nation : history and memory in making Zimbabwe. Charlottesville, [Virginia] ; London, [England] : University of Virginia Press, c2015 xvii, 280 pages Reconsiderations in southern African history. 9780813938226 2015011672
ISBN 9780813938226
9780813938233 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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