Isaac Ndlovu
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 369067 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Isaac Ndlovu |
| NOMBRES | Isaac |
| APELLIDO | Ndlovu |
| FIRMA | NDLOVU I |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Venda |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Ghostly national imaginings and the (il)logic of capitalism in Meg Vandermerwe’s Zebra Crossing
This article uses Anderson’s notions of national imaginings and calendrical coincidence as theoretical framework and the ideas of selected political economic theorists to examine Zebra Crossing’s depiction of precarious illegal crossing of national borders by economically desperate Zimbabweans in the years leading up to the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup held in South Africa. The novel foregrounds issues of identity by depicting challenges encountere…
Writing and reading Zimbabwe in the global literary market
Utilizing and extending Kwasi Wiredu's concept of conceptual decolonization and self-exorcism, this article makes observations about the ideological underpinnings and literary trajectory of post-2000 Zimbabwean fiction in English through readings of four novels: Harare North by Brian Chikwava, We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo, The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah, and The Maestro, The Magistrate and The Mathematician by Tendai Huchu. Chikwav…
Rewriting the Colonial Gaze? Black Middle-Class Constructions of Africa in Sihle Khumalo’s Travel Writing
Guided by autobiographical, travel, and life writing theories in general, this article examines Sihle Khumalo’s travelogs to argue that contemporary ways of knowledge production about Africa are overdetermined by the continent’s violent encounter with the other. Khumalo’s construction of the self in relation to Africa is informed by imperial travelogs and his newly acquired middle-class status. The self that emerges in Khumalo’s narratives is soc…
Writing in and about Prison, Childhood Albinism and Human Temporality in The Book of Memory
In its depiction of childhood albinism in a Zimbabwean township in the early 1990s and the imprisonment of females during the height of Zimbabwe’s political paralysis and economic collapse of the early 21st century, Petina Gappah’s The Book of Memory (2015) makes one imagine ways in which human time is constructed and perceived. As a child, Memory, the protagonist, suffers social exclusion because she has albinism, and as a young adult she is fal…
Inside out
This article examines A Human Being Died that Night: A Story of Forgiveness by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and Red Ink by Angela Makholwa, which are, respectively, auto/biographical and fictional narrative representations of the contemporary South African prison. Both narratives foreground gender because their female authors consciously posit their own femininity, in the case of Gobodo-Madikizela, and of her protagonist, in the case of Makholwa, as s…
Politically induced economic precarity, syncretism and female representations in Chigumadzi’s Sweet Medicine
Butler’s notion of precarity is useful in thinking through the situations of Panashe Chigumadzi’s representation of female characters in the novel Sweet Medicine. For Butler, precarity designates a politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support more than others. Tsitsi, the female protagonist, is a staunch Catholic whose transition into adulthood coincides with the politicall…
Ambivalence of representation
Bulawayo's We Need New Names engages with underprivileged postcolonial cosmopolitans in its articulation of a vision that is essentially tragic. The novel compels us to contemplate how Africa has been and can be represented in order to get the attention of a hegemonic Western audience. My discussion also explores the ways in which Bulawayo negotiates some of the unstated ongoing imperatives of what has been called the age of superstar writers and…
Satire, Children, and Traumatic Violence
My essay explores the child figure as narrator/focalizer/character and victim/perpetrator of traumatic violence and chilling abuse, as represented in Kourouma’s Allah Is Not Obliged (2000) and Akpan’s Say You’re One of Them (2008). These narratives offer themselves for comparison not least because both rely on satire and are about African children exposed to extreme violence in several late-postcolonial African states, but also because of the pro…
Autobiography, History, Memory and Nostalgia in Denis Beckett'sRadical Middleand Hugh Lewin'sStones Against the Mirror
Radical Middle and Stones Against the Mirror are responses to, and products of, what are perceived as threatening socio-political conditions and an uncertain literary context in post-apartheid South Africa, alongside the enduring traditional conceptualisation of an autobiographical self. Despite the fact that both writers display high levels of self-reflexivity, their narratives still demand to be read as autobiographies and not as mere autobiogr…
Response to Maurice T. Vambe's ‘Zimbabwe genocide
This response to Vambe's paper is partly inspired by Macaphulana ("New Zimbabwe" 25 February, 2013), a newspaper columnist who refers to Vambe's article as 'scholarship of grudge' (2012). Macaphulana is angered by what he perceives as shocking scholarship that characterises Vambe's article. However, Macaphulana is wrong to attribute this to some grudge that Vambe may have against the Ndebele people of Zimbabwe. For reasons best known to himself, …
Poverty in Freedom versus Opulence in Chains
In my examination of Ahmadou Kourouma's satirical 'historiographic metafiction' (Hutcheon 1988: 93) Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote [1998] (2004), I argue that this narrative shows that in postcolonial Africa freedom from colonial rule has resulted neither in privilege nor power for the majority of African citizens. In the novel, Kourouma employs but also subverts the style of donsomana or praise poetry in his satirisation of postcolonial Afr…
Coded narratives of nongoloza, doggy dog
This essay deals with Jonny Steinberg's multi‐layered prison narrative, The Number. The framing story is Magadien Wentzel's auto/biography. Embedded in Magadien's story is that of the killer, Doggy Dog, and also the tale of the legendary Nongoloza and Kilikijan. Steinberg brings together the stories of the key narrative subjects through their membership of the different Numbers gangs, inside and outside prison, and also through the manner in whic…
Ambivalence of representation
Bulawayo's We Need New Names engages with underprivileged postcolonial cosmopolitans in its articulation of a vision that is essentially tragic. The novel compels us to contemplate how Africa has been and can be represented in order to get the attention of a hegemonic Western audience. My discussion also explores the ways in which Bulawayo negotiates some of the unstated ongoing imperatives of what has been called the age of superstar writers and…
Politically induced economic precarity, syncretism and female representations in Chigumadzi’s Sweet Medicine
Butler’s notion of precarity is useful in thinking through the situations of Panashe Chigumadzi’s representation of female characters in the novel Sweet Medicine. For Butler, precarity designates a politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support more than others. Tsitsi, the female protagonist, is a staunch Catholic whose transition into adulthood coincides with the politicall…
Satire, Children, and Traumatic Violence
My essay explores the child figure as narrator/focalizer/character and victim/perpetrator of traumatic violence and chilling abuse, as represented in Kourouma’s Allah Is Not Obliged (2000) and Akpan’s Say You’re One of Them (2008). These narratives offer themselves for comparison not least because both rely on satire and are about African children exposed to extreme violence in several late-postcolonial African states, but also because of the pro…
Writing and reading Zimbabwe in the global literary market
Utilizing and extending Kwasi Wiredu's concept of conceptual decolonization and self-exorcism, this article makes observations about the ideological underpinnings and literary trajectory of post-2000 Zimbabwean fiction in English through readings of four novels: Harare North by Brian Chikwava, We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo, The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah, and The Maestro, The Magistrate and The Mathematician by Tendai Huchu. Chikwav…
Inside out
This article examines A Human Being Died that Night: A Story of Forgiveness by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and Red Ink by Angela Makholwa, which are, respectively, auto/biographical and fictional narrative representations of the contemporary South African prison. Both narratives foreground gender because their female authors consciously posit their own femininity, in the case of Gobodo-Madikizela, and of her protagonist, in the case of Makholwa, as s…
Autobiography, History, Memory and Nostalgia in Denis Beckett'sRadical Middleand Hugh Lewin'sStones Against the Mirror
Radical Middle and Stones Against the Mirror are responses to, and products of, what are perceived as threatening socio-political conditions and an uncertain literary context in post-apartheid South Africa, alongside the enduring traditional conceptualisation of an autobiographical self. Despite the fact that both writers display high levels of self-reflexivity, their narratives still demand to be read as autobiographies and not as mere autobiogr…
Response to Maurice T. Vambe's ‘Zimbabwe genocide
This response to Vambe's paper is partly inspired by Macaphulana ("New Zimbabwe" 25 February, 2013), a newspaper columnist who refers to Vambe's article as 'scholarship of grudge' (2012). Macaphulana is angered by what he perceives as shocking scholarship that characterises Vambe's article. However, Macaphulana is wrong to attribute this to some grudge that Vambe may have against the Ndebele people of Zimbabwe. For reasons best known to himself, …
Coded narratives of nongoloza, doggy dog
This essay deals with Jonny Steinberg's multi‐layered prison narrative, The Number. The framing story is Magadien Wentzel's auto/biography. Embedded in Magadien's story is that of the killer, Doggy Dog, and also the tale of the legendary Nongoloza and Kilikijan. Steinberg brings together the stories of the key narrative subjects through their membership of the different Numbers gangs, inside and outside prison, and also through the manner in whic…
Poverty in Freedom versus Opulence in Chains
In my examination of Ahmadou Kourouma's satirical 'historiographic metafiction' (Hutcheon 1988: 93) Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote [1998] (2004), I argue that this narrative shows that in postcolonial Africa freedom from colonial rule has resulted neither in privilege nor power for the majority of African citizens. In the novel, Kourouma employs but also subverts the style of donsomana or praise poetry in his satirisation of postcolonial Afr…
Response to Maurice T. Vambe's ‘Zimbabwe genocide
This response to Vambe's paper is partly inspired by Macaphulana ("New Zimbabwe" 25 February, 2013), a newspaper columnist who refers to Vambe's article as 'scholarship of grudge' (2012). Macaphulana is angered by what he perceives as shocking scholarship that characterises Vambe's article. However, Macaphulana is wrong to attribute this to some grudge that Vambe may have against the Ndebele people of Zimbabwe. For reasons best known to himself, …
Satire, Children, and Traumatic Violence
My essay explores the child figure as narrator/focalizer/character and victim/perpetrator of traumatic violence and chilling abuse, as represented in Kourouma’s Allah Is Not Obliged (2000) and Akpan’s Say You’re One of Them (2008). These narratives offer themselves for comparison not least because both rely on satire and are about African children exposed to extreme violence in several late-postcolonial African states, but also because of the pro…
Autobiography, History, Memory and Nostalgia in Denis Beckett'sRadical Middleand Hugh Lewin'sStones Against the Mirror
Radical Middle and Stones Against the Mirror are responses to, and products of, what are perceived as threatening socio-political conditions and an uncertain literary context in post-apartheid South Africa, alongside the enduring traditional conceptualisation of an autobiographical self. Despite the fact that both writers display high levels of self-reflexivity, their narratives still demand to be read as autobiographies and not as mere autobiogr…
Politically induced economic precarity, syncretism and female representations in Chigumadzi’s Sweet Medicine
Butler’s notion of precarity is useful in thinking through the situations of Panashe Chigumadzi’s representation of female characters in the novel Sweet Medicine. For Butler, precarity designates a politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support more than others. Tsitsi, the female protagonist, is a staunch Catholic whose transition into adulthood coincides with the politicall…
Ambivalence of representation
Bulawayo's We Need New Names engages with underprivileged postcolonial cosmopolitans in its articulation of a vision that is essentially tragic. The novel compels us to contemplate how Africa has been and can be represented in order to get the attention of a hegemonic Western audience. My discussion also explores the ways in which Bulawayo negotiates some of the unstated ongoing imperatives of what has been called the age of superstar writers and…
Inside out
This article examines A Human Being Died that Night: A Story of Forgiveness by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and Red Ink by Angela Makholwa, which are, respectively, auto/biographical and fictional narrative representations of the contemporary South African prison. Both narratives foreground gender because their female authors consciously posit their own femininity, in the case of Gobodo-Madikizela, and of her protagonist, in the case of Makholwa, as s…
Writing in and about Prison, Childhood Albinism and Human Temporality in The Book of Memory
In its depiction of childhood albinism in a Zimbabwean township in the early 1990s and the imprisonment of females during the height of Zimbabwe’s political paralysis and economic collapse of the early 21st century, Petina Gappah’s The Book of Memory (2015) makes one imagine ways in which human time is constructed and perceived. As a child, Memory, the protagonist, suffers social exclusion because she has albinism, and as a young adult she is fal…
Rewriting the Colonial Gaze? Black Middle-Class Constructions of Africa in Sihle Khumalo’s Travel Writing
Guided by autobiographical, travel, and life writing theories in general, this article examines Sihle Khumalo’s travelogs to argue that contemporary ways of knowledge production about Africa are overdetermined by the continent’s violent encounter with the other. Khumalo’s construction of the self in relation to Africa is informed by imperial travelogs and his newly acquired middle-class status. The self that emerges in Khumalo’s narratives is soc…
Writing and reading Zimbabwe in the global literary market
Utilizing and extending Kwasi Wiredu's concept of conceptual decolonization and self-exorcism, this article makes observations about the ideological underpinnings and literary trajectory of post-2000 Zimbabwean fiction in English through readings of four novels: Harare North by Brian Chikwava, We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo, The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah, and The Maestro, The Magistrate and The Mathematician by Tendai Huchu. Chikwav…
Ghostly national imaginings and the (il)logic of capitalism in Meg Vandermerwe’s Zebra Crossing
This article uses Anderson’s notions of national imaginings and calendrical coincidence as theoretical framework and the ideas of selected political economic theorists to examine Zebra Crossing’s depiction of precarious illegal crossing of national borders by economically desperate Zimbabweans in the years leading up to the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup held in South Africa. The novel foregrounds issues of identity by depicting challenges encountere…
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