Fighting and Writing

The Rhodesian Army at War and Postwar

Luise White (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2021
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1062-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Luise White is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Florida and the author of several books, most recently Unpopular Sovereignty: Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization.

Acknowledgments vii
Place-Names, Currency, and Acronyms xi
1. Zimbabwe's Liberation Struggle and Rhodesia's Bush War: Locating Its History 1
2. "Blood and Ink": Memoirs, Authors, Histories 31
3. "Your Shona Is Better Than Mine!" Pseudo Gangs, Blacking Up, and the Pleasures of Counterinsurgency 59
4. "Each Footprint Tells a Story": Tracking and Poaching in the Rhodesian Army 83
5. "There Is No Copyright on Facts": Ron Reid-Daly, Authorship, and the Transkei Defence Force 109
6. "Every Self-Respecting Terrorist Has an AK-47": Guerrilla Weapons and Rhodesian Imaginations 121
7. "A Plastic Bag full of Cholera": Rhodesia and Chemical and Biological Weapons 141
8. "Will Travel Worldwide. You Pay Expenses": Foreign Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army 167
9. "What Interests Do You Have?": Security Force Auxiliaries and the Limits of Counterinsurgency 197
Conclusions 222
Notes 227
Bibliography 261
Index 281

Erscheinungsdatum	16.03.2021
Zusatzinfo	8 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4780-1062-2 / 1478010622
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-1062-3 / 9781478010623
Zustand	Neuware