Beyond the Border War: new perspectives on Southern Africa's late-Cold War conflicts

Baines, Gary; Vale, Peter

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Title:	Beyond the Border War: new perspectives on Southern Africa's late-Cold War conflicts
Editors:	Baines, Gary Vale, Peter
Year:	2008
Pages:	342
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Pretoria
Publisher:	Unisa Press
ISBN:	9781868884568
Geographic terms:	Angola Namibia South Africa
Subjects:	military intervention military occupation images
Abstract:	More than 15 years have passed since South Africa withdrew its armed forces from Angola and agreed to a negotiated settlement based on UN Security Council Resolution 435 for Namibia, the Cold War ended, and the liberation movements suspended the armed struggle against the apartheid regime. Yet scant attention has been paid to the convergence of these events. This volume offers new perspectives on the Border War through the paradigms of diplomatic and military history, cultural and literary studies, as well as victimology. An introduction by Gary Baines is followed by chapters on how the Border War was framed by the binaries of the Cold War (Peter Vale), the paradox that Afrikaner Nationalist ideology actually mirrored that of the Soviet State (Monica Popescu), ideological manipulation and the Border War (Dylan Craig), the cultural construction of 'the border' in white South African society (Daniel Conway), the construction and subversion of gender stereotypes in popular cultural representations of the Border War (Michael Drewett), literature of the Border War (Mathilde Rogez, Henriette Roos), the art exhibit 'Memórias íntimas marcas' (Wendy Morris), South African soldiers' narratives of the Border War (Karen Batley), Savimbi's war (Elaine Windrich), Cuba's Angolan campaign (Edgar Dosman), UNTAG peacekeeping in Namibia (Robert Gordon), psychosocial strains of transition for veterans of the South African Defence Force (SADF) (Sasha Gear), the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's account (Christopher Saunders), the liberation war in postcolonial Namibian writing (Heike Becker) and the politics of memory and forgetting in Namibia (Justine Hunter). [ASC Leiden abstract]