1. Xiconhoca: Mozambique’s Ubiquitous Post-Independence Traitor

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Specters of Treason 1
4. 1. Xiconhoca: Mozambique’s Ubiquitous Post-Independence Traitor 24
5. 2. Denunciatory Practices and the Constitutive Role of Collaboration in the Bangladesh War 48
6. 3. Intimacy, Loyalty, and State Formation: The Specter of the ‘‘Anti-National’’ 68
7. 4. Traitors, Terror, and Regime Consolidation on the Two 4. Sides of the Taiwan Straits: ‘‘Revolutionaries’’ and ‘‘Reactionaries’’ from 1949 to 1956 89
8. 5. Betraying Trust and the Elusive Nature of Ethnicity in Burundi 110
9. 6. In Praise of Traitors: Intimacy, Betrayal, and the Sri Lankan Tamil Community 127
10. 7. Treason and Contested Moralities in a Coloured Township, Cape Town 150
11. 8. In a Treacherous State: The Fear of Collaboration Among West Bank Palestinians 169
12. 9. The Glass Agency: Iranian War Veterans as Heroes or Traitors? Kamran Rastegar 188
13. 10 The Man in the White Raincoat: Betrayal and the Historian’s Task 200
14. Afterword: Questions of Judgment Stephan Feuchtwang 227
15. Notes 241
16. Bibliography 253
17. List of Contributors 267
18. Index 269
19. Acknowledgments 273