The Conscript

The Conscript
Author: Gebreyesus Hailu
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Total Pages: 93
Release: 2012-01-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 082144445X


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Eloquent and thought-provoking, this classic novel by the Eritrean novelist Gebreyesus Hailu, written in Tigrinya in 1927 and published in 1950, is one of the earliest novels written in an African language and will have a major impact on the reception and critical appraisal of African literature. The Conscript depicts, with irony and controlled anger, the staggering experiences of the Eritrean ascari, soldiers conscripted to fight in Libya by the Italian colonial army against the nationalist Libyan forces fighting for their freedom from Italy’s colonial rule. Anticipating midcentury thinkers Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire, Hailu paints a devastating portrait of Italian colonialism. Some of the most poignant passages of the novel include the awakening of the novel’s hero, Tuquabo, to his ironic predicament of being both under colonial rule and the instrument of suppressing the colonized Libyans. The novel’s remarkable descriptions of the battlefield awe the reader with mesmerizing images, both disturbing and tender, of the Libyan landscape—with its vast desert sands, oases, horsemen, foot soldiers, and the brutalities of war—uncannily recalled in the satellite images that were brought to the homes of millions of viewers around the globe in 2011, during the country’s uprising against its former leader, Colonel Gaddafi.

The Conscript

The Conscript
Author: Erckmann-Chatrian
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2019-12-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:


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The Conscript

The Conscript
Author: Erckmann-Chatrian
Publisher:
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1869
Genre: Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
ISBN:


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The Conscript

The Conscript
Author: Emile Erckmann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1885
Genre:
ISBN:


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The Conscript

The Conscript
Author: Hendrik Conscience
Publisher:
Total Pages: 114
Release: 1889
Genre:
ISBN:


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The Conscript

The Conscript
Author: Alexandre Dumas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 414
Release: 1874
Genre:
ISBN:


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The Conscript, an Historical Novel

The Conscript, an Historical Novel
Author: Emile Erckmann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1903
Genre: Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
ISBN:


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Conscript Nation

Conscript Nation
Author: Elizabeth Shesko
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-05-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822946021


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Military service in Bolivia has long been compulsory for young men. This service plays an important role in defining identity, citizenship, masculinity, state formation, and civil-military relations in twentieth-century Bolivia. The project of obligatory military service originated as part of an attempt to restrict the power of indigenous communities after the 1899 civil war. During the following century, administrations (from oligarchic to revolutionary) expressed faith in the power of the barracks to assimilate, shape, and educate the population. Drawing on a body of internal military records never before used by scholars, Elizabeth Shesko argues that conscription evolved into a pact between the state and society. It not only was imposed from above but was also embraced from below because it provided a space for Bolivians across divides of education, ethnicity, and social class to negotiate their relationships with each other and with the state. Shesko contends that state formation built around military service has been characterized in Bolivia by multiple layers of negotiation and accommodation. The resulting nation-state was and is still hierarchical and divided by profound differences, but it never was simply an assimilatory project. It instead reflected a dialectical process to define the state and its relationships.