Sudan's "Southern Problem" Race, Rhetoric and International Relations, 1961-1991 /

• Main Author: Manoeli, Sebabatso C. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: African Histories and Modernities
• Subjects: Africa, North-History.; Social history.; World politics.; Diplomacy.; History of North Africa.; Social History.; Political History.

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 t...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Origins of the "Southern Problem"
• 3 'Apartheid' Sudan: Rebel Narratives of the "Southern Problem"
• 4 '[A] nation is not physically of one "blood"': Portraying Sudan as Non-racial
• 5 The Political Afterlives of Rebel Narratives
• 6 Discourse, Diplomacy and Disintegration at the Round Table Conference
• 7 SANU's Discursive Legacies
• 8 'We have no Harlem in Sudan': Sudan's Deflective Diplomacy
• 9 'The Cuba of Africa': Sudan's Socialist Networks and Narratives
• 10 Narrative Jiu-Jitsu
• 11 Conclusion
• 12 Epilogue: Narrative-as-Lived: The meaning of the "New Sudan" to SPLM soldiers
• Bibliography
• Notes
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