Format:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781137482730
Series Statement:
African histories and modernities
Content:
During the Zimbabwean struggle for independence, the settler regime imprisoned numerous activists and others it suspected of being aligned with the guerrillas. This book is the first to look closely at the histories and lived experiences of these political detainees and prisoners, showing how they challenged and negotiated their incarceration.
Content:
Between 1961 and 1979, African nationalists engaged in a protracted guerrilla war that ultimately ended white rule in colonial Rhodesia. During the conflict, the settler regime responded by imprisoning numerous activists and others it suspected of being aligned with the guerrillas. This book is the first to look closely at the histories and lived experiences of political detainees and prisoners whose contributions to the liberation struggle have been rendered invisible by the dominant historical and political narratives of modern-day Zimbabwe. Drawing on extensive oral histories with former prisoners, it argues that the experience of imprisonment despite being an extreme version of colonial rule that combined spatial confinement with curtailed freedoms, racialized abuse, racial segregation, and heightened repression also constituted a terrain of struggle, doubly characterized by repression and subversion, upon which political prisoners were capable of actively challenging and negotiating their incarceration
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: The prison as a site of struggle during Zimbabwe's liberation warThe growth of African opposition and intensified state political repression in Rhodesia, 1960-1970sGetting arrested : oral histories of violence, torture, and arrest in Rhodesia, 1960-1979Life in detention : oral histories of confinement in Rhodesian detention centersLife behind bars : oral histories of life inside Rhodesian prisons, 1965-1980Epilogue: Life beyond bars and legacies of incarceration in colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe, 1965-2000Conclusion.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1137482737
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137482716
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137482730
Additional Edition:
Print version Prisoners of Rhodesia
Language:
English
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