Lost Nationalism: Revolution, Memory and Anti-colonial Resistance in Sudan (Eastern Africa Series, 31) - Softcover

Vezzadini, Elena

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847012094 ISBN 13: 9781847012098

Publisher: James Currey, 2019

Synopsis

Winner of the African Studies Association 2016 Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize The 1924 Revolution was a watershed in Sudanese history, the first episode of anti-colonial resistance in which a nationalist ideology was explicitly used, and part of a global wave of anti-colonial movements after the First World War that can be seen as the ""spring of the colonial nations"". This detailed account of the uprising, and its eventual failure, explores the cosmopolitan nationalism embraced by the White Flag League, the movement that sparked the revolution, and its ability to attract people from diverse origins, classes and professions. It examines the international genesis of the movement; the strategies put in place to spread it in different areas of Sudan and among different groups; the movement's inclusive ideology and its definition of the Sudanese nation, as well as the limitations to its inclusiveness; and the way in which this episode reveals deeper questions relating to origins, social hierarchies and power. The book also unravels the complex history of the memory of 1924, the politics of its representation and the underlying power struggles that saw 1924 largely lost from the historical record. Elena Vezzadini is a historian of modern Sudan affiliated to the CNRS, Institut des Mondes Africains, Paris.

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Review:

"With a stunning depth and breadth of research, Vezzadini has produced a kind of 'total' event history, the foundation of which is a sustained socio-economic analysis of those who joined the revolution, to produce an important alternative account of an event deliberately orphaned by both embarrassed British officials and subsequent Sudanese nationalists."--African Studies Association

"The Arabic and English, textual and visual, primary and secondary sources on which Vezzadini was able to draw for this study, while extraordinarily rich and abundant, were also challenging and complex. Her painstaking analysis of them in their Sudanese contexts as well as from the vantage point of a wide range of relevant comparative and theoretical scholarship is nothing less than impressive."--International Journal of African Historical Studies

"...a well-documented case study utilizing major conceptual frameworks for analysis, Lost Nationalism is a useful contribution to understanding nationalism and revolution in the modern world."--Canadian Journal of African Studies

About this edition

• Publisher: James Currey
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1847012094
• ISBN 13: 9781847012098
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336