Cultures of Change in Contemporary Zimbabwe

Socio-Political Transition from Mugabe to Mnangagwa
Herausgeber: Nyambi, Oliver; Ncube, Gibson; Mangena, Tendai

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates how culture is used to reflect on 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781032040271
• ISBN-10: 1032040270
• Artikelnr.: 67824790

Autorenporträt

Oliver Nyambi lectures in the Department of English, University of the Free State in South Africa and is currently a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation hosted by Susan Arndt in the Professorship of English Studies and Anglophone Literatures at Bayreuth University, Germany. Tendai Mangena is Associate Professor of African Literary and Cultural Studies at Great Zimbabwe University in Zimbabwe and a Research Fellow in the Department of English at the University of the Free State in South Africa. Gibson Ncube lectures in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages, Stellenbosch University and is currently a Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The 2017 coup and cultures of change in Zimbabwe (Oliver
Nyambi, Tendai Mangena and Gibson Ncube) Part I: Spectacles of change in
the Second Republic 1. The patriotic present: The urgency of now in
Zimbabwe's 'new' dispensation (Cuthbeth Tagwirei) 2. The spectacle and
semiotics of the Presidential scarf in Zimbabwe's "Second Republic" (Obert
B. Mlambo & Ezra Chitando) 3. Mugabeism otherwise? A critical reflection on
toxic leadership and Zimbabwe's "New Dispensation" (Shepherd Mpofu) 4.
Theatres of Struggle in post-Mugabe Zimbabwe (Nkululeko Sibanda) 5.
Derisive imaginaries of the death and burial of Mugabe and the nascent
aesthetics of coercive power in "Second Republic" politics (Irikidzayi
Manase) 6. The spectre of Mugabe: land, change and discursive politics of
dispensations in Zimbabwe (Oliver Nyambi) Part II: Tropes of ambivalent
"transitions" 7. "We must aspire to be a clean nation": Ambivalences of
transition in "New Dispensation" metaphors of dirt (Tendai Mangena) 8.
Gukurahundi revisited in the Second Republic: trauma, memory and violence
in Novuyo Rosa Tshuma's House of Stone (Gibson Ncube) 9. Spectacles of
transition: texts and counter-texts in the historiography of Zimbabwe in
transition (Muchativugwa L. Hove) 10. A déjàvu of Orwellian 'proportions':
Re-reading Animal Farm in the context of Zimbabwean politics of change
(Thamsanqa Moyo & Esther Mavengano) Part III: Dis/continuing political
cultures 11. Narrativising dis/continuities in ZANU PF intra-power politics
(Terrence Musanga) 12. A nation burdened by an unappeased ngozi? A 'folk'
cultural perspective on Zimbabwe's stagnation (Mickias Musiyiwa) 13. In and
out of court: Zimbabwe's perennial framing of opposition politics as
'nuisance needing judiciary pacification' (Edmore Dube) 14. Auxillia
Mnangagwa's 'Amaihood' and the cultural politics of the Zimbabwean First
Lady in the "New Dispensation" (Umali Saidi)