ANN MOSELY LESCH, The Sudan: Contested National Identities (Bloomington: Indiana University Press; and Oxford: James Currey, 1998). Pp. 299. $39.95 cloth, $19.95 paper

In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Band 33, Heft 1, S. 127-129

Abstract

With nearly a half-century of intermittent civil war in the background, it is becoming
impossible to write a social-science monograph about Sudan without referring to contested
national, ethnic, and religious identities. Few such works are gendered, however, and perhaps
even fewer attempt a class analysis. Sudanese scholars contend more successfully with class;
Euroamericans with gender. Despite good intentions, Sudan is usually explored through the
binary model of "north" and "south." Ann Lesch is no exception, but
her ability to complicate matters is a welcome addition to the
"integration–segregation" or "unionist–separatist"
literature on Sudan.