Jaji Jaji
Biographic Data
| ID | 4993647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jaji Jaji |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jaji |
| FAMILY NAME | Jaji |
| SIGNATURE | JAJI J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gendered Subjectivities
This article draws from qualitative research with Zimbabwean women and men in peacebuilding. It argues that the sociocultural construction of femininity and configuration of gender roles in Zimbabwe portray women's participation in peacebuilding as value-laden and anomalous. Using Galtung's (1969, 1990) concepts of structural and cultural violence, the article shows that women's interpretation of peace is informed by their gendered experiences. I…
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Introduction
Introduction:The Performance of Pan-Africanism Tsitsi Jaji, Martin Munro, and David Murphy In recent years, animated debates about African literature have continued to unfold. The heated questions engaged include who may or may not be an African writer; what geography, lineage, and citizenship have to do with this question; and whom such writers write for. The field of African literary studies, then, increasingly incorporates a plethora of struct…
Cassava Westerns
This essay takes Mauritanian filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako's statements about the impression Spaghetti Westerns made on him as a teen as an entry point to consider new insights into Sissako's films that emerge when they are viewed comparatively through the genre convention of the western. Rather than arguing that Sissako seeks to fulfill or depart from such conventions, the essay shows that Sissako's experience of the genre is in fact common to …
The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood
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Introduction
Introduction:The Performance of Pan-Africanism Tsitsi Jaji, Martin Munro, and David Murphy In recent years, animated debates about African literature have continued to unfold. The heated questions engaged include who may or may not be an African writer; what geography, lineage, and citizenship have to do with this question; and whom such writers write for. The field of African literary studies, then, increasingly incorporates a plethora of struct…
Cassava Westerns
This essay takes Mauritanian filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako's statements about the impression Spaghetti Westerns made on him as a teen as an entry point to consider new insights into Sissako's films that emerge when they are viewed comparatively through the genre convention of the western. Rather than arguing that Sissako seeks to fulfill or depart from such conventions, the essay shows that Sissako's experience of the genre is in fact common to …
The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood
Cassava Westerns
This essay takes Mauritanian filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako's statements about the impression Spaghetti Westerns made on him as a teen as an entry point to consider new insights into Sissako's films that emerge when they are viewed comparatively through the genre convention of the western. Rather than arguing that Sissako seeks to fulfill or depart from such conventions, the essay shows that Sissako's experience of the genre is in fact common to …
Introduction
Introduction:The Performance of Pan-Africanism Tsitsi Jaji, Martin Munro, and David Murphy In recent years, animated debates about African literature have continued to unfold. The heated questions engaged include who may or may not be an African writer; what geography, lineage, and citizenship have to do with this question; and whom such writers write for. The field of African literary studies, then, increasingly incorporates a plethora of struct…
Gendered Subjectivities
This article draws from qualitative research with Zimbabwean women and men in peacebuilding. It argues that the sociocultural construction of femininity and configuration of gender roles in Zimbabwe portray women's participation in peacebuilding as value-laden and anomalous. Using Galtung's (1969, 1990) concepts of structural and cultural violence, the article shows that women's interpretation of peace is informed by their gendered experiences. I…
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Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Poetry (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work)