Muchativugwa Liberty Hove
Biographic Data
| ID | 258812 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Muchativugwa Liberty Hove |
| GIVEN NAMES | Muchativugwa Liberty |
| FAMILY NAME | Hove |
| SIGNATURE | HOVE M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | North-West University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6021-4639 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bordered Imaginations: The Politics of Crafting and Reading Southern African Writers’ Literary Texts in Transnational Spaces
Neither women’s studies nor lesbian and gay studies offers an adequate theoretical or political base for disruptive scholarship. Reading and interpreting Southern African writers, especially Sindiwe Magona and Ngugi wa Thiong’o, promotes women’s studies as an academic and political approach to both gender and the erotic. Drawing on genealogies of rupture and intergenerational studies, we argue that the feminist is a positionality that must be wid…
Fractured Formations and Unfinished Processes of Transformation: Re-Reading Ayi Kwei Armah
Intersections of Masculinity, Sexuality, Nationality, and Racial Identity in James Baldwin
James Baldwin stands as an enigma: the fiery, race-conscious sculptor of Go Tell It, The Fire Next Time, and the homosexual creator of Giovanni's Room, Another Country, and Just Above My Head. His essays on racial, and national identities are archived in Nobody Knows My Name and Notes on a Native Son. In life and death, Baldwin's quest for an inclusive humanism has been received both negatively and positively by black and white audiences. Baldwin…
Memory, spectacle and menace in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
David Lurie, the protagonist in Disgrace, boldly rejects the cyclical and persistent nature of state intrusion into private lives in post-apartheid South Africa. He presents a defence to counter a university academic committee’s public interrogation into what he perceives ought to be a private matter, a spectacle of his sexual exploitation of Soraya and Melanie Isaacs. He scoffs at the menace of disciplinary hearings such as the Truth and Reconci…
Dislocations: The Dynamics of Memory and Perplexities of Freedom in John Kani’s Nothing but the Truth
This article questions the meanings ascribed to memory and reconciliation after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in South Africa. It discusses these meanings through an analysis of the subjectivities projected in John Kani's play Nothing but the Truth (published in 2002). This play is one of the few theatrical projects that boldly address the elastic concepts of (dis)locations and disjunctures, memory, and reconciliation both spatial…
Bound Together in Invisible Ways: Eulogising a Giant of History
This article examines Barack Obama's eulogy on the occasion of Nelson Mandela's memorial on 10 December, 2013. Using a critical discourse analysis framework, the article demonstrates that Obama's eulogy is an act of memorialising Mandela that captures the life story of this statesman and also generates conversations about identity, participation and agency in both local and the global spaces. The eulogy privileges three qualities: making emotiona…
When tears become a language: Frictions in a xenophobic national ‘imaginary
In the past few years, South Africa has experienced three widely publicized xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals. The victims of each of these incidents of antiimmigrant violence were Mozambican nationals and each received prominent media attention: the ‘burning man’ of 2008; the ‘police-dragged’ national of 2013; and the savagely-knifed Emmanuel Sithole of Alexandra in 2015. This article is framed by these incidents, in which the ‘alien’ foun…
One supervisor, two students: Experiences and anxieties of PhD journeys
Today, colleges and universities offer master's and doctoral degrees in increasing numbers. Many students enrol in these programmes and, in many cases, such students are without appropriate guidance and support in conceptualising, conducting and writing original research. The lack of support and guidance during the M&D journey results in students taking more than the required duration for the programme, withdrawal or abandonment and, consequently…
Dialogues of Memory, Heritage and Transformation: Re-membering Contested Identities and Spaces in Postcolonial South African and Zimbabwean White Writings
The protean and contested symbols of Zimbabwean literature remain the land and invented heroes, including a hagiographic iconisation of shrines, best seen in the Zimbabwe ruins, the Zimbabwe Bird and the national heroes’ acre. In South African white writings, the symbolic topos has been dominated by prison walls, the hangman’s noose, Robben Island and, in the post-apartheid era, Saartjie Baartman and the imagined rainbow generated through the Tru…
Reversions and Revisions: Displacement, Heritage and History in Chenjerai Hove's Ancestors
Ancestors narrates the story of the deaf and the dumb. It stands, at once, as story and history, as allegory and epic, as journey and departure. It is panoply interrogating matriarchy and patriarchy, domination and emergence from the abyss of history. It is a narrative that presents to its readers the joys of motherhood and the pains of a desecrated motherhood. It is, therefore, both a narrative of struggle and assertion, a process of (un)naming …
Deformity, disability and marginality in Zimbabwean literary discourse
In this article, I attempt a seamless explanation, categorisation and discussion of the twin concepts of deformity and disability as they are imagined in Zimbabwean orature and literary discourse. I suggest that the two aberrations manifest themselves physically and psychologically and that, generally, Zimbabwean society exhibits ambivalence towards the two. This ambivalence is manifested through fear and anxiety, especially when such afflictions…
Strugglers and Stragglers: Imagining the “War Veteran” from the 1890s to the Present in Zimbabwean Literary Discourse
This article interrogates the diverse images of the combative participant in the struggle for Zimbabwean independence. The war for independence took close to a century – from 1890 to 1980. The numerical inversion in the dates ironically mirrors the radical transformation in the perceptions of the hero. The article makes a historical survey of the rifts and shifts in the cultural memory and literary configurations of the African armed combatant. I…
Dislocations: The Dynamics of Memory and Perplexities of Freedom in John Kani’s Nothing but the Truth
This article questions the meanings ascribed to memory and reconciliation after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in South Africa. It discusses these meanings through an analysis of the subjectivities projected in John Kani's play Nothing but the Truth (published in 2002). This play is one of the few theatrical projects that boldly address the elastic concepts of (dis)locations and disjunctures, memory, and reconciliation both spatial…
Strugglers and Stragglers: Imagining the “War Veteran” from the 1890s to the Present in Zimbabwean Literary Discourse
This article interrogates the diverse images of the combative participant in the struggle for Zimbabwean independence. The war for independence took close to a century – from 1890 to 1980. The numerical inversion in the dates ironically mirrors the radical transformation in the perceptions of the hero. The article makes a historical survey of the rifts and shifts in the cultural memory and literary configurations of the African armed combatant. I…
Deformity, disability and marginality in Zimbabwean literary discourse
In this article, I attempt a seamless explanation, categorisation and discussion of the twin concepts of deformity and disability as they are imagined in Zimbabwean orature and literary discourse. I suggest that the two aberrations manifest themselves physically and psychologically and that, generally, Zimbabwean society exhibits ambivalence towards the two. This ambivalence is manifested through fear and anxiety, especially when such afflictions…
Reversions and Revisions: Displacement, Heritage and History in Chenjerai Hove's Ancestors
Ancestors narrates the story of the deaf and the dumb. It stands, at once, as story and history, as allegory and epic, as journey and departure. It is panoply interrogating matriarchy and patriarchy, domination and emergence from the abyss of history. It is a narrative that presents to its readers the joys of motherhood and the pains of a desecrated motherhood. It is, therefore, both a narrative of struggle and assertion, a process of (un)naming …
Dialogues of Memory, Heritage and Transformation: Re-membering Contested Identities and Spaces in Postcolonial South African and Zimbabwean White Writings
The protean and contested symbols of Zimbabwean literature remain the land and invented heroes, including a hagiographic iconisation of shrines, best seen in the Zimbabwe ruins, the Zimbabwe Bird and the national heroes’ acre. In South African white writings, the symbolic topos has been dominated by prison walls, the hangman’s noose, Robben Island and, in the post-apartheid era, Saartjie Baartman and the imagined rainbow generated through the Tru…
Bound Together in Invisible Ways: Eulogising a Giant of History
This article examines Barack Obama's eulogy on the occasion of Nelson Mandela's memorial on 10 December, 2013. Using a critical discourse analysis framework, the article demonstrates that Obama's eulogy is an act of memorialising Mandela that captures the life story of this statesman and also generates conversations about identity, participation and agency in both local and the global spaces. The eulogy privileges three qualities: making emotiona…
When tears become a language: Frictions in a xenophobic national ‘imaginary
In the past few years, South Africa has experienced three widely publicized xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals. The victims of each of these incidents of antiimmigrant violence were Mozambican nationals and each received prominent media attention: the ‘burning man’ of 2008; the ‘police-dragged’ national of 2013; and the savagely-knifed Emmanuel Sithole of Alexandra in 2015. This article is framed by these incidents, in which the ‘alien’ foun…
One supervisor, two students: Experiences and anxieties of PhD journeys
Today, colleges and universities offer master's and doctoral degrees in increasing numbers. Many students enrol in these programmes and, in many cases, such students are without appropriate guidance and support in conceptualising, conducting and writing original research. The lack of support and guidance during the M&D journey results in students taking more than the required duration for the programme, withdrawal or abandonment and, consequently…
Dislocations: The Dynamics of Memory and Perplexities of Freedom in John Kani’s Nothing but the Truth
This article questions the meanings ascribed to memory and reconciliation after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in South Africa. It discusses these meanings through an analysis of the subjectivities projected in John Kani's play Nothing but the Truth (published in 2002). This play is one of the few theatrical projects that boldly address the elastic concepts of (dis)locations and disjunctures, memory, and reconciliation both spatial…
Memory, spectacle and menace in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
David Lurie, the protagonist in Disgrace, boldly rejects the cyclical and persistent nature of state intrusion into private lives in post-apartheid South Africa. He presents a defence to counter a university academic committee’s public interrogation into what he perceives ought to be a private matter, a spectacle of his sexual exploitation of Soraya and Melanie Isaacs. He scoffs at the menace of disciplinary hearings such as the Truth and Reconci…
Intersections of Masculinity, Sexuality, Nationality, and Racial Identity in James Baldwin
James Baldwin stands as an enigma: the fiery, race-conscious sculptor of Go Tell It, The Fire Next Time, and the homosexual creator of Giovanni's Room, Another Country, and Just Above My Head. His essays on racial, and national identities are archived in Nobody Knows My Name and Notes on a Native Son. In life and death, Baldwin's quest for an inclusive humanism has been received both negatively and positively by black and white audiences. Baldwin…
Fractured Formations and Unfinished Processes of Transformation: Re-Reading Ayi Kwei Armah
Bordered Imaginations: The Politics of Crafting and Reading Southern African Writers’ Literary Texts in Transnational Spaces
Neither women’s studies nor lesbian and gay studies offers an adequate theoretical or political base for disruptive scholarship. Reading and interpreting Southern African writers, especially Sindiwe Magona and Ngugi wa Thiong’o, promotes women’s studies as an academic and political approach to both gender and the erotic. Drawing on genealogies of rupture and intergenerational studies, we argue that the feminist is a positionality that must be wid…
Sociology (10 works) · Art (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · South African History and Culture (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · History (5 works) · Narrative (5 works) · Politics (5 works)