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Author Bissell, Cunningham.

Title Social Memory, Silenced Voices, and Political Struggle : Remembering the Revolution in Zanzibar.

Publication Info. Oxford : Mkuki na Nyoka Publishers, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (406 pages)
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Contents Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Figures and Illustrations; Acronyms; Acknowledgments; Authors; Chapter One -- Memory, Media, and Mapinduzi: Alternative Voices and Visions of Revolution, Fifty Years Later; Opening Ceremonies: Official Events and Popular (Dis)Engagement; Reverberations of Revolution: Things That Go without Saying, Things That Cannot Be Said; Engaging the Past: Remembrance and Representation; Official Stories: Constructing the Public Face of the Revolution; Controlling Affects, Disciplining Bodies, and Reordering Space; Dissonant and Alternative Voices.
Searching for the "Truth": Epistemic Murk and Historical QuestAdjudicating the Dead of the Revolution; Interwoven Temporalities: The Revolution and the Legacy of Slavery; Coda: "Revolution Forever!" (Mapinduzi Daima!) or a Revolution Not Even Past?; References; Chapter Two -- Memories of Revolution: Patterns of Interpretation of the 1964 Revolution in Zanzibar; The Revolution: Establishing a Framework of Events and Processes; The Intricacies of Interpretation; Patterns of Interpretation; The Civil War Argument; By Way of Conclusion: Memories of Revolution; References.
Chapter Three -- The Voice of the Revolution: Remembering and Re-Envisioning Field Marshal John OkelloThe Voice; Confusion about Okello's Identity; Biography, Take One: Sources Close to Okello; Biography, Take Two: Archival Sources; Biography, Take Three: East African Newspapers in the Aftermath of the Revolution; Biography, Take Four: Views from Back Home in Uganda; Okello in the Media, Then and Now; Okello in Academic Accounts and Party Histories; Conclusion; References; Chapter Four -- Memory, Liberalism, and the Reconstructed Self: Wolfango Dourado and the Revolution in Zanzibar; Background.
Memory, Liberalism, and the Reconstructed SelfColonialism; Nationalism; Revolution; Karume the Terrible; Jumbe the Disagreeable; Conclusion; References; Chapter Five -- "For Us It's What Came After": Locating Pemba in Revolutionary Zanzibar; Pemba in "Zanzibar"-Named/Not Named, T here/Not There; When Pemba's There: Geographic Terms; Pemban Social Organization; The Time of Satiety "Before": Pemba in the 1950s; It Didn't Happen Here: 1961, 1964; Latecomers to Revolution: "You Didn't Wield the Panga"; Stories from Clove Lands; The Entire Place a Prison: "Days of Caning"; Revolution as Theater.
The Curtailing of Intellectual Life: "Foreign" and "Traditional" KnowledgeThe Pemba Famine: Njaa Established in the Land; On Elections: Where Do Pembans Belong?; Revolution for All?; References; Chapter Six -- Uncommon Misery, Relegated to the Margins: Tumbatu and Fifty Years of the Zanzibar Revolution; Situating Tumbatu and Jongowe; Historical Memories and Colonial Misrepresentation; Zanzibar's Revolutionary Era; Outcomes of the Revolutionary Era in Jongowe; Conclusion; References; Chapter Seven -- "Glittering Skin": Race, Rectitude, and Wrongdoing in Zanzibar.
Note The Revolution: Righting Wrongs and Punishing Wrongdoers.
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Subject Zanzibar -- History -- Revolution, 1964.
Revolution (Zanzibar : 1964)
Chronological Term 1964
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Fouéré, Marie-Aude.
Other Form: Print version: Bissell, Cunningham. Social Memory, Silenced Voices, and Political Struggle : Remembering the Revolution in Zanzibar. Oxford : Mkuki na Nyoka Publishers, ©2018 9789987083176
ISBN 9987083463
9789987083466 (electronic book)