Life writing from the margins in Zimbabwe : versions and subversions of crisis / Oliver Nyambi.
"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...
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New York, NY :
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2019.
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| Series: | Routledge contemporary Africa series.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Contested versions of nation, nationness and nationality
- "Howzat": sport, representing and re-presenting the nation in Henry Olonga's Blood, sweat and treason: my story
- Alternative iconographies: recentering unconventional memories in Tekere's A lifetime of struggle
- "All the beautiful soldiers": narrating trauma and state violence in Hope deferred: narratives of Zimbabwean lives
- "Through the eyes of a mum": the affects of disclosure and moral justice in Cathy Buckle's Life writings of the crisis
- "In the midst of a very dark Africa": land, spirituality and an enduring coloniality in Henry Jackson's Another farm in Africa
- Black racism?: negotiating the colour of belonging in Mugabe and the white African.