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On the Familiar Essay - Challenging Academic Orthodoxies (Hardcover): G. Atkins

On the Familiar Essay - Challenging Academic Orthodoxies (Hardcover)

G. Atkins

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Rooted in close reading of texts, including the essays of E.B. White, this comprehensive assessment of the oft-slighted subform of the literary essay situates the familiar at the heart of the essay as form. This book transforms our understanding of the recent political history of Central Africa. It charts the complex life and thought of Harry Nkumbula (ca. 1917-1983), the first openly nationalist African politician in Northern Rhodesia and, later, the leader of parliamentary opposition during Zambia's multi-party First Republic. Based mainly on his personal papers and the newly opened archives of UNIP, Zambia's ruling party between 1964 and 1991, the volume looks at how Nkumbula imagined a Zambian nation for the first time and, later, presented a liberal alternative to dominant state-led models of political and economic development. By exploring the trajectory of Nkumbula's ANC, a minority liberal party with strong ethnic roots, the book throws new light on the under-acknowledged fractiousness of Zambian nationalism and warns against reading African post-colonial politics solely in terms of clientelism.

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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: October 2009
First published: October 2009
Authors: G. Atkins
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 978-0-230-62000-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory
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LSN: 0-230-62000-0
Barcode: 9780230620001

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