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Life-Writing from the Margins in Zimbabwe: Versions and Subversions of Crisis: Routledge Contemporary Africa

Autor Oliver Nyambi
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2021
This book explores the unique contributions of various forms of post-2000 life-writings such as the autobiography, epistles, and biographies, to discourses about the nature and socio-politics of what has become known as the Zimbabwean crisis (c. 2000–2009).


Much of what has been written about the Zimbabwean crisis – a decade-long period of unprecedented economic collapse and political upheavals in the southern African country – is strictly discipline-specific and therefore limited to unidimensional modes of theorising the crisis’s many and complex dimensions and dynamics. In this context, this book charts a paradigm shift in hermeneutic and epistemological approaches to comprehending the Zimbabwean crisis. Life-Writing from the Margins in Zimbabwe centres the experiences and memories of ordinary Zimbabweans in pluralizing modes of seeing and knowing the crisis. The book argues that these life-writings present a rich site for encountering versions of the crisis that relate in counter-discursive ways, to the dominant, state-authored narrative of the nation in crisis. Oliver Nyambi’s analysis contributes new ideas to ongoing debates about how cultural texts reflect on the postcoloniality of both power, and experiences and negotiations of power in the context of crisis.


This book will be of interest to scholars and students of African literature, Zimbabwean/African studies, postcolonial literature, life-writing and cultural studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032178110
ISBN-10: 1032178116
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Contemporary Africa

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

1. Introduction: Contested versions of Nation, Nationness and Nationality  2. "Howzat": Cricket, re-presenting and representing the nation in crisis in Henry Olonga’s Blood, Sweat and Treason: My Story  3. Alternative iconographies: recentering ‘unconventional’ memories in Tekere’s A Lifetime of Struggle  4. "All the Beautiful Soldiers": Narrating Trauma and State Violence in Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives  5. "Through the Eyes of a Mum": The Affects of Disclosure and Moral Justice in Cathy Buckle's Life Writings of the Crisis  6. "... In the Midst of a Very Dark Africa": Land, Spirituality and an Enduring Coloniality in Henry Jackson's Another Farm in Africa  7. Black Racism?: Negotiating the Colour of Belonging in Mugabe and the White African   

Recenzii

"This book will be an important intervention on the Zimbabwean literary scene that helps us to understand how writers from quite different perspectives have used life writing to tell their versions of the recent past. With its theoretically rich readings and helpful contextualizations, the book will also be of interest to readers not familiar with the Zimbabwean context who may instead be drawn to the author’s ability to balance sympathy and criticism, or to his nuanced considerations of the role of life writing in archiving the self at times of crisis." - Astrid Rasch, Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly

Descriere

This book explores the unique contributions of various forms of post-2000 life-writings such as the autobiography, epistles and biographies to discourses about the nature and socio-politics of what has become known as the Zimbabwean crisis (c. 2000 -2009).