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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Liberation war"”.
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Humayun Ahmed and Archival Hauntings: The Subaltern Experience of the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh as Portrayed in Debi
<p>In this paper, I argue how Humayun Ahmed's <em>Debi </em>offers insight into the function that archives play in creating radical nationalism in a country like Bangladesh; how these archives work to consolidate political power for a select few, and how they further subjugate and silence the …
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Revolution, military personnel and the War of Liberation in Bangladesh
… during the initial but critical phase of the Liberation War of 1971. Unlike the military in some other Third World Countries, at that point of time, the Bengali military officers made a move neither for grabbing political power nor for replacing a corrupt or inept regime but for establishing …
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Rewriting post-colonial historical representations: the case of refugees in Zimbabwe's war of liberation
… The case of refugees in Zimbabwe's liberation war' focuses on the historicisation of the experiences of people who were refugees during Zimbabwe's liberation war, fought between 1966 and 1980. It uses the narratives of former refugees from Mutasa and Bulilima Districts as a way of …
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Fragmented Memory, Incomplete History: Women and Nation in War Films of Bangladesh
… the history of Bangladesh is its nine-month long Liberation War (Muktijuddho in Bengali) of 1971. My research explores the ways in which memories and histories of the war are shaped by the gender dynamics of nationalism in different periods through examining war-themed films of Bangladesh. By …
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Sedition, Equality, Nature, and Love: Anti-colonialism in the Literary Corpus of Kazi Nazrul Islam, 1900-1930
… demands and political representation. After the liberation war of 1971, the emergence of a new nation-state, Bangladesh, garlanded Nazrul as a national poet to enhance its political legitimacy. By contrast, in India, the pro-Hindu political group, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in its turn, crowned …
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En-gendering theatre in Eritrea : the roles and representations of women in the performing arts
… fighter performing arts during the thirty-year liberation struggle against Ethiopia. After an introduction to Eritrean history and theatre arts as well as the theoretical framework of the study, Chapter 1 examines women's roles and representations in Eritrean societies and selected traditional …
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Race, Identity, and Belonging in Early Zimbabwean Nationalism(s), 1957-1965
… nationalist organisations during the pre-Liberation War period were heavily influenced by the competing racial theories and politics espoused by their elite leadership. It further argues that the imagined future Zimbabwean nations had a fluid and reflexive positioning of citizens based on …
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Adapting to Resist: Epistemic Resistance in Twenty-First Century Antigones
… political issues, such as immigration, women′s liberation, war in the Middle East, and necropolitics. By closely examining various rewritings of *Antigone* both in theory and in performance, I observe that in the 21<sup>st</sup> century, adapting *Antigone* has taken an epistemic turn that …
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Soil conservation and the white agrarian environment in Colonial Zimbabwe, c. 1908-1980
… on international markets. The start of the liberation war at the end of the 1960s further complicated matters.
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A Socio-Environmental History of Dispossession and Displacement in the Zimunya, Marange and Bvumba (Chirara) Communities of Eastern Zimbabwe, 1920s - 2015
… state - sponsored development projects and wars resulted in rural people losing their property and being forcibly moved from their homesteads. The study highlights the endurance of the family institution in times of trouble. It uses historical episodes such as the rise of settler capitalist …
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The right of self-determination of majority-minority groups within nation-states: a case study of Bangladesh
… Chapter VI critically examines the UN attitude toward the gross violations of human rights in Bangladesh and shows how the UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities failed to deal with them, despite appeals made by certain UN Member States and international …
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The role of youths in Zimbabwe Liberation Struggle: A case study of Bulilima District, 1960-1980.
… of Bulilima youths in Zimbabwe’s national liberation struggle from 1960 to 1980. The study describes and explains how and to what extent Bulilima youths were involved and participated in Zimbabwean guerrilla war. Bulilima is a border district between Zimbabwe and Botswana which, from 1960 – …