Kudzayi Ngara
Biographic Data
| ID | 4052259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kudzayi Ngara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kudzayi |
| FAMILY NAME | Ngara |
| SIGNATURE | NGARA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Western Cape |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5064-6991 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Country and countryhood
Country is a recurring metaphoric trope in NoViolet Bulawayo’s novels, Glory and We Need New Names, that layers multiple meanings of the nation as a post-colonial political project. This trope recurs in neo-nationalist discourses where competing constructions of progress in Zimbabwe pervade, for instance, the former President Mugabe’s personalising discourses of Zimbabwe as his, and the current President Mnangagwa’s linguistic constructs of post-…
An Afro-cosmological Approach to Marechera’s The House of Hunger (1978)
Marechera and his literary texts do not fit easily into Africanist categories of reading, principally due to his vitriolic invocation of the ‘f-word’ when asked if he was an African writer. Despite this iconoclasm, Afro-cosmic creeds undeniably inform aspects of his novella. An Afro-cosmological approach acknowledges non-empirical influences for certain behavioural traits portrayed by various characters in the novella which Marechera utilises and…
The everyday experience of xenophobia
Debates on the underlying causes of xenophobia in South Africa have proliferated since the attacks between March and May 2008. Our article shows how exploring the everyday ‘ordinariness’ of xenophobia as performance can contribute additional insights not readily available in the public media or in works such as the recently published Go home or die here: violence, xenophobia and the reinvention of difference (Hassim et al. 2009). The claim that a…
Performing Xenophobia
(2009). Performing Xenophobia: a Conversation with Jonathan Nkala and Bo Petersen. South African Theatre Journal: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 207-220
The everyday experience of xenophobia
Debates on the underlying causes of xenophobia in South Africa have proliferated since the attacks between March and May 2008. Our article shows how exploring the everyday ‘ordinariness’ of xenophobia as performance can contribute additional insights not readily available in the public media or in works such as the recently published Go home or die here: violence, xenophobia and the reinvention of difference (Hassim et al. 2009). The claim that a…
Performing Xenophobia
(2009). Performing Xenophobia: a Conversation with Jonathan Nkala and Bo Petersen. South African Theatre Journal: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 207-220
The everyday experience of xenophobia
Debates on the underlying causes of xenophobia in South Africa have proliferated since the attacks between March and May 2008. Our article shows how exploring the everyday ‘ordinariness’ of xenophobia as performance can contribute additional insights not readily available in the public media or in works such as the recently published Go home or die here: violence, xenophobia and the reinvention of difference (Hassim et al. 2009). The claim that a…
An Afro-cosmological Approach to Marechera’s The House of Hunger (1978)
Marechera and his literary texts do not fit easily into Africanist categories of reading, principally due to his vitriolic invocation of the ‘f-word’ when asked if he was an African writer. Despite this iconoclasm, Afro-cosmic creeds undeniably inform aspects of his novella. An Afro-cosmological approach acknowledges non-empirical influences for certain behavioural traits portrayed by various characters in the novella which Marechera utilises and…
Country and countryhood
Country is a recurring metaphoric trope in NoViolet Bulawayo’s novels, Glory and We Need New Names, that layers multiple meanings of the nation as a post-colonial political project. This trope recurs in neo-nationalist discourses where competing constructions of progress in Zimbabwe pervade, for instance, the former President Mugabe’s personalising discourses of Zimbabwe as his, and the current President Mnangagwa’s linguistic constructs of post-…
Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works)