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South Africa's 'Border War': Contested Narratives and Conflicting Memories de Professor Gary Baines

South Africa's 'Border War': Contested Narratives and Conflicting Memories: War, Culture and Society

Autor Professor Gary Baines
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 aug 2015
South Africa's 'Border War' provides a timely study of the 'war of words' waged by retired South African Defence Force (SADF) generals and other veterans against critics and detractors. The book explores the impact of the 'Border War' on South African culture and society during apartheid and in the new dispensation and discusses the lasting legacy or 'afterlife' of the war in great detail. It also offers an appraisal of the secondary literature of the 'Border War', supplemented by archival research, interviews and an analysis of articles, newspaper reports, reviews and blogs.Adopting a genuinely multidisciplinary approach that borrows from the study of history, literature, visual culture, memory, politics and international relations, South Africa's 'Border War' is an important volume for anyone interested in the study of war and memory or the modern history of South Africa.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781474255059
ISBN-10: 1474255051
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 16 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria War, Culture and Society

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

A historical work that also references disciplines including literature, visual culture, politics and international relations

Notă biografică

Gary Baines is Professor of History at Rhodes University, South Africa.

Cuprins

Introduction 1. Writing on the Wrong Side of History? SADF Soldier-Authors Reclaim the Border War2. The Spectre of Vietnam: Lessons and Legacies of the Border War 3. The Cultural Construction of Combat: Narrative Templates of the Border War4. Codes of Conduct in Captivity: Narratives of South African POWs in Angola5. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Victimhood: A South African War Veteran's Story6. The Battle for Cassinga: Competing Narratives and Complicating Histories7. The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale: Successful Stalemate and Vicarious Victory8. Digging up the Past: Revisiting the 1989 Namibian Ceasefire Violation9. The Freedom Park Fracas: Memorialising the Border War10. Veteranhood and the National Service Generation11. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

[This book] bears all the hallmarks of superior scholarship: profound thought and careful consideration, engagement with a wide-ranging historiography on memory and cultural studies, as well as firm intellectual engagement.
Very well researched and underpinned by a myriad of archival sources ... In post-apartheid South Africa, this book is unique ... A welcomed addition to all those interested in the 'Border War' and the liberation struggle in South Africa and Namibia.
Especially valuable is [Baines'] use of a wide array of sources, as well as his adoption of a cultural studies approach that employs theoretical and conceptual insights derived from [a variety of] disciplines ... The present study offers an opportune moment to investigate how the war is memorised by various constituencies ... [and] is a timely reminder of the deep divisions that still exist in South Africa.
The author should be applauded for engaging a huge number of sources including secondary literature, archival research, interviews, articles, newspaper reports, reviews and blogs during data collection ... The book is of significance to a number of disciplines ... [and] I invite all members of the academic fraternity to read the book and join me in congratulating Gary Baines.
...[T]his book represents an important contribution to the rapidly growing literature...all those interested in Southern Africa's Cold War-era conflicts are strongly recommended to read Baines's excellent book.