Publication

2004-05-12 - University of Illinois Press

Language

English

Word Count

42,000 words, Guess

Page Count

168 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

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Classifications

  • LCCDT1768.Z95W33 2004

Description

"In this compact study, Thembisa Waetjen explores how gender structured the mobilization of Zulu nationalism in South Africa, where ethnic communitarian and liberal democratic conceptions of nation competed for dominance as anti-apartheid efforts gained force during the 1980s. As its title suggests, Workers and Warriors argues that political struggles fought out in lethal battles between men - struggles over the nature of political authority and citizenship, territorial sovereignty and cultural tradition, industrial relationships and street-level control - were necessarily bound up with struggles over the changing meaning of male gender identities, power, and practices in conditions of rapid social change."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

On September 25, 1993, Zulu-speaking people from surrounding communities gathered in Stanger, South Africa, at the tomb of King Shaka kaSenzangakhona, the founder of the Zulu Kingdom whose military leadership had forged a regional empire in the first quarter of the nineteenth century.

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