1 Introduction.- 2 The Origins of the "Southern Problem".- 3 'Apartheid' Sudan: Rebel Narratives of the "Southern Problem".- 4 '[A] nation is not physically of one "blood"': Portraying Sudan as Non-racial.- 5 The Political Afterlives of Rebel Narratives.- 6 Discourse, Diplomacy and Disintegration at the Round Table Conference.- 7 SANU's Discursive Legacies .- 8 'We have no Harlem in Sudan': Sudan's Deflective Diplomacy.- 9 'The Cuba of Africa': Sudan's Socialist Networks and Narratives.- 10 Narrative Jiu-Jitsu.- 11 Conclusion .- 12 Epilogue: Narrative-as-Lived: The meaning of the "New Sudan" to SPLM soldiers.- Bibliography.- Notes.-