Sudan's Blood Memory: The Legacy of War, Ethnicity, and Slavery in South Sudan (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781580462310)

A history of Southern Sudan, from pre-colonial times to the present.

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.

Author: Stephanie Beswick
ISBN-10: 1580462316
ISBN-13: 9781580462310
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Language: English
Published: 01/15/2006
Pages: 218
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.36w x 0.69d