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Women's lived landscapes of war and liberation in Mozambique : bodily memory and the gendered aesthetics of belonging
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ISBN: 1000699935 0429289359 0367252473 9780429289354 9781000699937 9780367252472 9781000700541 1000700542 9781000701159 1000701158 1032086319 Year: 2020 Publisher: London ; New York, New York : Routledge,

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This book tells the history of the changing gendered landscapes of northern Mozambique from the perspective of women who fought in the armed struggle for national independence, diverting from the often-told narrative of women in nationalist wars that emphasizes a linear plot of liberation. Taking a novel approach in focusing on the body, senses, and landscape, Jonna Katto, through a study of the women ex-combatants' lived landscapes, shows how their life trajectories unfold as nonlinear spatial histories. This brings into focus the women's shifting and multilayered negotiations for personal space and belonging. This book explores the life memories of the now aging female ex-combatants in the province of Niassa in northern Mozambique, looking at how the female ex-combatants' experiences of living in these northern landscapes have shaped their sense of socio-spatial belonging and attachment. It builds on the premise that individual embodied memory cannot be separated from social memory; personal lives are culturally shaped. Thus, the book does notonly tell the history of a small and rather unique group of women but also speaks about wider cultural histories of body-landscape relations in northern Mozambique and especially changes in those relations. Enriching our understanding of the gendered history of the liberation struggle in Mozambique and informing broader discussions on gender and nationalism, this book will be of interest to students and scholarsof African history, especially the colonial and postcolonial history of Lusophone Africa, as well as gender/women's history and peace and conflict studies.


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Peasant consciousness and guerrilla war in Zimbabwe : a comparative study.
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ISBN: 0852550006 0852550014 0520055551 0520055888 9780520055551 9780520055889 Year: 1985 Volume: 37 Publisher: London Currey


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Church, state and people in Mozambique : an historical study with special emphasis on Methodist developments in the Inhambane region.
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ISBN: 9185424285 Year: 1994 Publisher: Uppsala Swedish institute of missionary research

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Conceiving Mozambique
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ISBN: 9783319659879 3319659871 9783319659862 3319659863 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, imprint of Springer,

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This long-awaited book is a vivid history of Frelimo, the liberation movement that gained power in Mozambique following the sudden collapse of Portuguese rule in 1974. The leading scholar of the liberation struggle in Portuguese Africa, John Marcum completed this work shortly before his death, after a lifetime of research and close contact with many of the major Mozambican nationalists of the time. Assembled from his rich archive of unpublished letters, diaries, and transcribed conversations with figures such as Eduardo Mondlane, Adelino Gwambe, and Marcelino dos Santos, this book captures the key issues and personalities that shaped the era. With unique insight into the Mozambican struggle and the tragic short-sightedness of U.S. policy, Conceiving Mozambique encourages a dispassionate re-examination of the movement’s costs as well as its remarkable accomplishments.

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