Sudan’s “Southern Problem”: Race, Rhetoric and International Relations, 1961-1991 (African Histories and Modernities) - Hardcover

Manoeli, Sebabatso C.

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ISBN 10: 303028770X ISBN 13: 9783030287702

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

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The book offers a history of the discourses and diplomacies of Sudan’s civil wars. It explores the battle for legitimacy between the Sudanese state and Southern rebels. In particular, it examines how racial thought and rhetoric were used in international debates about the political destiny of the South. By placing the state and rebels within the same frame, the book uncovers the competition for Sudan’s reputation. It reveals the discursive techniques both sides employed to elicit support from diverse audiences, amidst the intellectual ferment of Pan-Africanism, the Cold War, and Black liberation politics. It maintains that the interplay of silences and articulations in both the rebels' and the state’s texts concealed and complicated aspects of the country’s political conflict. In sum, the book demonstrates that the war of words waged abroad represents a strategic, but often overlooked, aspect of the Sudanese civil wars.

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Sebabatso C. Manoeli is a Research Associate in the Department of History at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She leads programme strategy at the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity at Columbia University, USA, and previously, she held a lectureship in African history at the University of Oxford, UK.    

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The book offers a history of the discourses and diplomacies of Sudan’s civil wars. It explores the battle for legitimacy between the Sudanese state and Southern rebels. In particular, it examines how racial thought and rhetoric were used in international debates about the political destiny of the South. By placing the state and rebels within the same frame, the book uncovers the competition for Sudan’s reputation. It reveals the discursive techniques both sides employed to elicit support from diverse audiences, amidst the intellectual ferment of Pan-Africanism, the Cold War, and Black liberation politics. It maintains that the interplay of silences and articulations in both the rebels' and the state’s texts concealed and complicated aspects of the country’s political conflict. In sum, the book demonstrates that the war of words waged abroad represents a strategic, but often overlooked, aspect of the Sudanese civil wars.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 303028770X
• ISBN 13: 9783030287702
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 259
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