The history of colonial land alienation, the grievances fuelling
the liberation war, and post-independence land reforms have all
been grist to the mill of recent scholarship on Zimbabwe. Yet for
all that the country's white farmers have received considerable
attention from academics and journalists, the fact that they have
always played a dynamic role in cataloguing and representing their
own affairs has gone unremarked. It is this crucial dimension that
Rory Pilossof explores in The Unbearable Whiteness of Being. His
examination of farmers' voices - in The Farmer magazine, in
memoirs, and in recent interviews - reveals continuities as well as
breaks in their relationships with land, belonging and race. His
focus on the Liberation War, Operation Gukurahundi and the
post-2000 land invasions frames a nuanced understanding of how
white farmers engaged with the land and its peoples, and the
political changes of the past 40 years. The Unbearable Whiteness of
Being helps to explain why many of the events in the countryside
unfolded in the ways they did.
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