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This book investigates how culture reflects change in Zimbabwe,
focusing predominantly on Mnangagwa's 2017 coup, but also
uncovering deeper roots for how renewal and transition are
conceived in the country. Since Emmerson Mnangagwa ousted Robert
Mugabe in 2017, he has been keen to defi ne his "Second Republic"
or "New Dispensation" with a rhetoric of change and a rejection of
past political and economic cultures. This multi and inter-
disciplinary volume looks to the (social) media, language/
discourse, theatre, images, political speeches and literary fiction
and non- fiction to see how they have reflected on this time of
unprecedented upheaval. The book argues that themes of self-
renewal stretch right back to the formative years of the ZANU PF,
and that despite the longevity of Mugabe's tenure, the latest
transition can be seen as part of a complex and protracted layering
of postcolonial social, economic and political changes. Providing
an innovative investigation of how political change in Zimbabwe is
reflected on in cultural texts and products, this book will be of
interest to researchers across African history, literature,
politics, culture and post- colonial studies.
This book addresses the ways in which writers deploy the trope of
contested criminality to expose Zimbabwe's socially and politically
oppressive cultures in a wide range of novels and short stories
published in English between 1994 and 2016. Some of the most
influential authors that are examined in this book are Yvonne Vera,
Petina Gappah, NoViolet Bulawayo, Brian Chikwava, Christopher
Mlalazi, Tendai Huchu and Virginia Phiri. The author uses the
Zimbabwean experience to engage with critical issues facing the
African continent and the world, providing a thoughtful reading of
contemporary debates on illegal migration, homophobia, state
criminality and gender inequalities. The thematic focus of the book
represents a departure from what Schulze-Engler notes elsewhere as
postcolonial discourse's habit of suggesting that the legacies of
colonialism and the predominance of the 'global North' are
responsible for injustice in the Global South. Using the context of
Zimbabwe, it is shown that colonialism is not the only image of
violence and injustice, but that there are other forms of injustice
that are of local origin. Throughout the book, it is argued that in
speaking about contested criminalities, writers call attention to
the fact that laws are violated, some laws are unjust and some
crimes are henceforth justified. In this sense crime, (in)justice
and the law are portrayed as unstable concepts.
This book addresses the ways in which writers deploy the trope of
contested criminality to expose Zimbabwe's socially and politically
oppressive cultures in a wide range of novels and short stories
published in English between 1994 and 2016. Some of the most
influential authors that are examined in this book are Yvonne Vera,
Petina Gappah, NoViolet Bulawayo, Brian Chikwava, Christopher
Mlalazi, Tendai Huchu and Virginia Phiri. The author uses the
Zimbabwean experience to engage with critical issues facing the
African continent and the world, providing a thoughtful reading of
contemporary debates on illegal migration, homophobia, state
criminality and gender inequalities. The thematic focus of the book
represents a departure from what Schulze-Engler notes elsewhere as
postcolonial discourse's habit of suggesting that the legacies of
colonialism and the predominance of the 'global North' are
responsible for injustice in the Global South. Using the context of
Zimbabwe, it is shown that colonialism is not the only image of
violence and injustice, but that there are other forms of injustice
that are of local origin. Throughout the book, it is argued that in
speaking about contested criminalities, writers call attention to
the fact that laws are violated, some laws are unjust and some
crimes are henceforth justified. In this sense crime, (in)justice
and the law are portrayed as unstable concepts.
This book examines the ways in which political discourses of crisis
and 'newness' are (re)produced, circulated, naturalised, received
and contested in Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe. Going beyond the
ordinariness of conventional political, human and social science
methods, the book offers new and engaging multi-disciplinary
approaches that treat discourse and language as important sites to
encounter the politics of contested representations of the
Zimbabwean crisis in the wake of the 2017 coup. The book centres
discourse on new approaches to contestations around the discursive
framing of various aspects of the socio-economic and political
crisis related to significant political changes in Zimbabwe
post-2017. Contributors in this volume, most of whom experienced
the complex transition first-hand, examine some of the ways in
which language functions as a socio-cultural and political
mechanism for creating imaginaries, circulating, defending and
contesting conceptions, visions, perceptions and knowledges of the
post-Mugabe turn in the Zimbabwean crisis and its management by the
"New Dispensation". This book will be of interest to scholars of
African studies, postcolonial studies, language/discourse studies,
African politics and culture.
This book explores the interface of fiction and social reality in
the area of child sexual abuse. The argument is that literature is
mainly influenced by conditions of existence in the real world. The
project rests on Fischer's idea that "art itself is social reality"
(1959: p46). Its central challenge is to subject Vera's Under the
Tongue (1996) and Jack's Naked (2007) to an examination that
incorporates social reality. At the centre of both novels, we find
the silenced voices of abused girls and boys. This research argues
that though Under the Tongue and Naked do not refer to the
Zimbabwean "crisis" of the new millennium, they do contain powerful
commentaries of one of its key aspects, that of child sexual abuse.
African writers and literary critics must account for the changing
political terrain and how these contribute to creating new sources
of conflicts and aggression toward women. This book brings insight
and scholarly breadth to the growing research on women, war, and
conflict in Africa. The aftermath of wars and conflicts initiates
new forms of violence and related gender challenges. The
contributors establish compelling evidence for the significance of
gender in the analyses of contemporary warfare and conflict.
Articulating war's consequences for women and children remains a
major challenge for critics, policy makers, and human rights
organizations. There is a need for deeper understanding of the new
sources of violence and male aggression on women, the gendered
challenges of reintegration in the aftermath, and the future
consequences of gendered violence for the African continent. This
book will be useful to scholars, researchers, instructors, students
of literature in the humanities, women's studies, liberal studies,
African studies, etc. at both undergraduate and graduate levels. It
also offers interdisciplinary utility for readers interested in
literary representations of women's experience in war and conflict.
African writers and literary critics must account for the changing
political terrain and how these contribute to creating new sources
of conflicts and aggression toward women. This book brings insight
and scholarly breadth to the growing research on women, war, and
conflict in Africa. The aftermath of wars and conflicts initiates
new forms of violence and related gender challenges. The
contributors establish compelling evidence for the significance of
gender in the analyses of contemporary warfare and conflict.
Articulating war's consequences for women and children remains a
major challenge for critics, policy makers, and human rights
organizations. There is a need for deeper understanding of the new
sources of violence and male aggression on women, the gendered
challenges of reintegration in the aftermath, and the future
consequences of gendered violence for the African continent. This
book will be useful to scholars, researchers, instructors, students
of literature in the humanities, women's studies, liberal studies,
African studies, etc. at both undergraduate and graduate levels. It
also offers interdisciplinary utility for readers interested in
literary representations of women's experience in war and conflict.
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