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Contested Criminalities in Zimbabwean Fiction: Routledge Contemporary Africa

Autor Tendai Mangena
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 dec 2020
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367732493
ISBN-10: 0367732491
Pagini: 175
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Contemporary Africa

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Introduction: Contesting Criminality in Zimbabwean Fiction in English  1. Remapping the Criminality of the Gukurahundi in Christopher Mlalazi’s Running with Mother and "Tsano"  2. Rethinking the Illegality of Undocumented Migrants  3. Revisiting Homosexuality and Prostitution Crimes  4. Narratives of Female Criminality: Petina Gappah’s and Yvonne Vera’s Writings  5. Antinomies Between Culture and the Law in Petina Gappah’s Two Short Stories

Notă biografică

Tendai Mangena is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Media Studies, Great Zimbabwe University, Zimbabwe, and a Research Fellow in the English Department of University of the Free State, South Africa. Her latest publication is The Postcolonial Condition of Names and Naming Practices in Southern Africa (2016, co-edited with Oliver Nyambi and Charles Pfukwa).

Descriere

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. Provides a thoughtful reading of contemporary debates on illegal migration, homophobia, state criminality and gender inequalities.