Sudan's Blood Memory: The Legacy of War, Ethnicity, and Slavery in South Sudan (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, 17) by Beswick, Stephanie
Sudan's Blood Memory: The Legacy of War, Ethnicity, and Slavery in South Sudan (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, 17) by Beswick, Stephanie
Softcover
ISBN 9781580462310 / 1580462316
Publisher: University of Rochester Press , 2006
Condition: Very Good+. The pictorial laminated wraps are slightly shelf rubbed but is in an overall beautiful condition.The book has no inscriptions and the binding is excellent.
Many societies worldwide possess oral histories and long memories, reaching back many centuries, particularly of wars and events of great trauma. Labeling them "blood memories" in this book, Stephanie Beswick presents a pre-colonial history of Southern Sudan, a region that, according to some, "has no history." Beginning in the fourteenth century, the book follows the region's largest ethnic group today, the Dinka, from their original homelands in the central Sudanese Gezira between the Blue and White Niles, into their more recently adopted homelands in Southern Sudan. Beswick demonstrates how early pre-colonial stresses play a critical role in modern-day South Sudan, in what has since become the world's longest civil war, fought externally against the fundamentalist Islamic Northern Sudanese government as well as internally within the South itself. Stephanie Beswick is professor of history at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. She was born in Khartoum, Sudan.
