Soldiers, Martyrs, Traitors, and Exiles: Political Conflict in Eritrea and the Diaspora

by Tricia Redeker Hepner

Book Overview

Soldiers, Martyrs, Traitors, and Exiles is an exploration of the Eritrean struggle for independence from Ethiopia, waged from 1961 to 1991, and the postindependence nation-building project. The book focuses on the way the Eritrean revolution drew refugees and exiles in the urban United States and nationalist guerrilla fighters in the Horn of Africa together in a common, yet contested, political agenda.

Through a combination of ethnography...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812221516
• ISBN13: 9780812221510
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"