Oliver Nyambi

Life-Writing from the Margins in Zimbabwe (eBook, ePUB)

Versions and Subversions of Crisis

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429785757
• Artikelnr.: 56862704

Autorenporträt

Oliver Nyambi teaches postcolonial African literature and culture in the Department of English at the University of the Free State in South Africa. He has held several research positions, amongst them, a writing Fellowship in the Duke Africa Initiative program at Duke University, USA, and recently as a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies' African Humanities Program. He is currently an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow hosted by Prof. Susan Arndt in the Department of English Studies and Anglophone Literatures at Bayreuth University in Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

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