Bodies and Borders: Vietnam/Namibia
| dc.contributor.author | Marx, Lesley | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-07-06T07:50:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-07-06T07:50:23Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-01-12T08:40:45Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Ten years ago I sat at a kitchen table in a beautiful home at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Boulder, Colorado, and told my hosts the history of my three brothers, all of whom had been conscripts in the South African Defence Force (SADF), each of whose lives demanded that a different kind of story be told. And so the discussion developed: how would one—how would I—ever tell that story, those stories? My listeners suggested that the story I could (should?) tell would be the story of the sister who couldn’t save her brothers, each of whom had given up his life either metaphorically or, in the case of the youngest, literally. I have been haunted ever since by the beckoning specter of that story that the sister should (try to) tell. The urgency grows as the years go by and the history of South Africa’s ‘‘Border War’’ becomes an increasingly ill-defined and contested one. | |
| dc.identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17533170701295405 | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Marx, L. (2007). Bodies and Borders: Vietnam/Namibia. <i>Safundi: Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24698 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Marx, Lesley "Bodies and Borders: Vietnam/Namibia." <i>Safundi: Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies</i> (2007) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24698 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Marx, L. (2007). Bodies and Borders: Vietnam/Namibia. Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, 8(1), 91-102. | |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Marx, Lesley AB - Ten years ago I sat at a kitchen table in a beautiful home at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Boulder, Colorado, and told my hosts the history of my three brothers, all of whom had been conscripts in the South African Defence Force (SADF), each of whose lives demanded that a different kind of story be told. And so the discussion developed: how would one—how would I—ever tell that story, those stories? My listeners suggested that the story I could (should?) tell would be the story of the sister who couldn’t save her brothers, each of whom had given up his life either metaphorically or, in the case of the youngest, literally. I have been haunted ever since by the beckoning specter of that story that the sister should (try to) tell. The urgency grows as the years go by and the history of South Africa’s ‘‘Border War’’ becomes an increasingly ill-defined and contested one. DA - 2007 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Safundi: Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2007 T1 - Bodies and Borders: Vietnam/Namibia TI - Bodies and Borders: Vietnam/Namibia UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24698 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24698 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Marx L. Bodies and Borders: Vietnam/Namibia. Safundi: Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies. 2007; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24698. | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Film and Media Studies | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | Safundi: Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies | |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17533170701295405 | |
| dc.title | Bodies and Borders: Vietnam/Namibia | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Article | en_ZA |