Fighting and Writing

The Rhodesian Army at War and Postwar

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ID9312585
AuthorsLuise White (corresponding author)
Year2021
Pages301
Publication date2021-02-08
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueFighting and Writing (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/9781478021285
OpenAlexW3130348944
ISBN9781478021285
Open LibraryOL34149638M
LanguageEN
Citations received4

In Fighting and Writing Luise White brings the force of her historical insight to bear on the many war memoirs published by white soldiers who fought for Rhodesia during the 1964-1979 Zimbabwean liberation struggle. In the memoirs of white soldiers fighting to defend white minority rule in Africa long after other countries were independent, White finds a robust and contentious conversation about race, difference, and the war itself. These are writings by men who were ambivalent conscripts, generally aware of the futility of their fight-not brutal pawns flawlessly executing the orders and parroting the rhetoric of a racist regime. Moreover, most of these men insisted that the most important aspects of fighting a guerrilla war-tracking and hunting, knowledge of the land and of the ways of African society-were learned from Black playmates in idealized rural childhoods. In these memoirs, African guerrillas never lost their association with the wild, even as white soldiers boasted of bringing Africans into the intimate spaces of regiment and regime

Economic history · Political science · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History

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