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This monograph explores the concept of mobility in Zimbabwean works
of fiction published in English between the introduction of the
controversial Fast Track Land Reform Programme and the end of the
Mugabe era. Since 2000, Zimbabwe has experienced unprecedented
levels of transnational out-migration in response to the political
conflicts and economic downturn often referred to as the Zimbabwe
Crisis. This, in turn, has led to an increased outpouring of
literary texts about migration, both in locally produced texts and
in works by authors based in the diaspora. Situating Zimbabwe’s
recent literary developments in a wider context of Southern African
writing and history, this book focuses on texts that portray
movement within Zimbabwe’s cities, between village and city, to
South Africa, and overseas. The author examines important
developments and trends in recent Zimbabwean literature,
investigating the link between state authoritarianism and control
of mobility, and literature’s potential to intervene into
dominant political discourses. The book includes in-depth analyses
of ten recent works of fiction published in the post-2000 era and
develops mobility as a key category of literary analysis of
Zimbabwe’s contemporary literatures. Setting out a rich dialogue
between literary criticism and mobility studies, this book will be
of interest to researchers of African literature, Southern Africa,
migration, and mobility.
This monograph explores the concept of mobility in Zimbabwean works
of fiction published in English between the introduction of the
controversial Fast Track Land Reform Programme and the end of the
Mugabe era. Since 2000, Zimbabwe has experienced unprecedented
levels of transnational out-migration in response to the political
conflicts and economic downturn often referred to as the Zimbabwe
Crisis. This, in turn, has led to an increased outpouring of
literary texts about migration, both in locally produced texts and
in works by authors based in the diaspora. Situating Zimbabwe's
recent literary developments in a wider context of Southern African
writing and history, this book focuses on texts that portray
movement within Zimbabwe's cities, between village and city, to
South Africa, and overseas. The author examines important
developments and trends in recent Zimbabwean literature,
investigating the link between state authoritarianism and control
of mobility, and literature's potential to intervene into dominant
political discourses. The book includes in-depth analyses of ten
recent works of fiction published in the post-2000 era and develops
mobility as a key category of literary analysis of Zimbabwe's
contemporary literatures. Setting out a rich dialogue between
literary criticism and mobility studies, this book will be of
interest to researchers of African literature, Southern Africa,
migration, and mobility.
On what terms and concepts can we ground the comparative study of
Anglophone literatures and cultures around the world today? What,
if anything, unites the novels of Witi Ihimaera, the speculative
fiction of Nnedi Okorafor, the life-writings by Stuart Hall, and
the emerging Anglophone Arab literature by writers like Omar Robert
Hamilton? This volume explores the globality of Anglophone fiction
both as a conceptual framing and as a literary imaginary. It
highlights the diversity of lives and worlds represented in
Anglophone writing, as well as the diverse imaginations of
transnational and planetary connections articulated in it.
Featuring a variety of internationally renowned scholars, this book
thinks through Anglophone literature not merely as a crippling
legacy of colonial rule, or as exoticizing commodity in a global
literary marketplace, but as an inherently transcultural literary
medium that facilitates the articulation of divergent experiences
of modernity and the critique of hierarchies and inequalities
within, among, and beyond post-colonial societies.
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