Irikidzayi Manase
Biographic Data
| ID | 637488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irikidzayi Manase |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irikidzayi |
| FAMILY NAME | Manase |
| SIGNATURE | MANASE I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Free State |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7720-4464 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Discourse of Secession in Novuyo Rosa Tshuma's House of Stone
This article examines the depiction of the discourse of secession in Novuyo Rosa Tshuma's House of Stone (2018). Borrowing insights on secession from international law and drawing on postcolonial concepts of identity formation and the theory of ethnicity as entry points, the article highlights the elusive nature of nation in Zimbabwe and affirms that the secessionist calls are a manifestation of the Ndebele people's struggles against the dialecti…
Nationhood and Ethnic Ideology: Examining Selected Cartoon Paratexts in Kwani
The paper interrogates the role of cartoons in the discursive construction of nationhood and national identity with a specific focus on cartoons published in a Kenyan literary magazine named Kwani? between 2007 and 2008. Kwani? employs cartoons to archive specific events in Kenyan history and articulate a particular view of 'Kenyanness'. Cartoons act as a disruptive art form that guides the process of making meaning out of a text. This function a…
Different narration, same history: The politics of writing ‘democratic narratives’ in Zimbabwe
Over the past five decades, Zimbabwe’s political trajectories were characterised by a historiographic revision and deconstruction that revealed varying ideological perceptions and positions of political actors. This article reconsiders the current shifts in the Zimbabwean historiography and focuses on the politics of positioning the self in the national narrative. The article analyses three Zimbabwean political autobiographies written by politica…
Language Syncretism and the Expression of Youth Identities in Zimbabwe Urban Grooves Music
The Zimbabwe urban grooves music is an urban contemporary musical genre that fuses local and global rhythms and beats and is popular with youth. Afro diasporic genres such as Jamaican dancehall and the Euro-American rap and rhythm and blues (R&B) are appropriated by the youthful artists who sing predominantly in local languages (Shona and Ndebele) about the lived Zimbabwean experiences. Despite the dominant vernacular lyrics, there is a significa…
Lawrence Hoba’s depiction of the post-2000 Zimbabwean land invasions in The Trek and Other Stories
The article examines Lawrence Hoba’s The Trek and Other Stories (2009), which describes experiences from the post-2000 land invasions and fast-track land reform in Zimbabwe. It analyses selected short stories in relation to other Zimbabwean fictional works about land and the definition and restoration of dignified and other identities lost during Rhodesian colonialism. The article also discusses the significance of the narrative style, especially…
White Narratives: The depiction of post-2000 land invasions in Zimbabwe
The post-2000 period in Zimbabwe saw the launch of a fast track land reform programme, resulting in a flurry of accounts from white Zimbabweans about how they saw the land, the land invasions, and their own sense of belonging and identity. In White Narratives, Irikidzayi Manase engages with this fervent output of texts seeking definition of experiences, conflicts and ambiguities arising from the land invasions. He takes us through his study of te…
History, migration and identity in contemporary Zimbabwean biography as reflected in Peter Orner and Annie Holmes’ (2010)Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives
This article endeavours to establish the relationship between history, migration and identity in contemporary Zimbabwean biography as reflected in Peter Orner and Annie Holmes’ Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives. History is conceptualised as a heterogeneous discourse constitutive of conflictual and competing personal and public histories that contest for hegemony in defining individual and national identities. Through the power of narr…
Debunking the Zimbabwean Myth of Jikinya Dance in Ndhlala’s Jikinya and Zimunya’s “Jikinya” (Dancer) and “Jikinya” (An African Passion)
This article analyzes representations of the Zimbabwean jikinya dance myth by Geoffrey Ndhlala in the novel Jikinya and Musaemura Zimunya in the poetry anthology Kingfisher, Jikinya and other poems. It examines the different social and historical settings considered in Ndhlala’s Jikinya (pre-colonial Zimbabwe) and Zimunya’s “Jikinya” (Dancer) and “Jikinya” (An African Passion) (the colonial period of the 1970s Zimbabwean anti-colonial war), and d…
Tribute Chenjerai Hove (1956–2015)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Representations of the Post-2000 Zimbabwean Economic Migrancy in Petina Gappah’s An Elegy for Easterly and Brian Chikwava’s Harare North
The article examines the literary representations of the nexus between migration and the post-2000 crisis in Zimbabwe from the prism of post-colonialism and economic migrancy. It discusses Chikwava’s Harare North and Gappah’s An Elegy for Easterly mapping of the link between the local and the global, especially the way characters who migrate to “Harare North”—London, construct their aspirations, perceptions, and identities as they imagine the cri…
Everyday Experiences and Aspirations in Selected Lower Class Townships of Johannesburg
This paper examines the journalese narratives by Dibetle and Harber and Vladislavic’s fictional depiction of a selected Johannesburg lower class township experiences. The paper draws on concepts about walking in the city, everyday city cultures and imaginaries of city and township life discussed by critics such as De Certeau, Mbembe, Dlamini and Nuttall. It examines the nature and presence, in the selected townships, of the intersection between t…
Zimbabwean migrants in the United Kingdom, the new media and networks of survival during the period 2000–2007
This article examines the nature and significance of the ways in which some Zimbabwean migrants based in the United Kingdom (UK) appropriated the new media and established social and economic networks of survival during the period 2002–2007. An absence of a significant study of the nexus between migration, the recent diasporas and the formation of diasporic media by African, specifically, Zimbabwean migrants, makes an analysis of how migrants hav…
The aesthetics of Winky D's Zimbabwe urban grooves music and an overview of his social commentary on the post-2000 experiences in Harare and other urban centres
Winky D is a popular dancehall musician who has recently risen to prominence in Zimbabwe. The rise is partly linked to the Zimbabwe government's media reforms, through the Broadcasting Act (2001). It stipulated that radio stations should play 75% local music, as part of its anti-Western imperialism agenda, and thus led to the growth of the Zimbabwe urban grooves music. Albums such as Vanhu Vakuru (Big Man), Chatsva (Fired Up) and Com 2 Tek Ova de…
Imagining Post-2000 Zimbabwean Perceptions of Land and Notions on Identities in Catherine Buckle's African Tears: The Zimbabwe Land Invasions
The novel African Tears: The Zimbabwe Land Invasions (2002a) describes the traumatic experiences that the author, Catherine Buckle, a white owner of Stow Commercial Farm near Marondera, faced during the early phase of the land invasions. The novel portrays Buckle's experiences while under siege and until she is forced to leave the farm by the war veterans. Her experiences are a result of the anti-imperialism campaign seeking to redefine perceptio…
Zimbabwean urban grooves and their subversive performance practices
This paper examines the role played by popular culture in response to the effects of the unfolding social and political repression on the ordinary Zimbabwean after 2000. The arts is one sector where the Zimbabwean government fostered its repressive hegemony. An urban youth music genre called ‘urban grooves’ rose to prominence during the period under focus here and some of the artists colluded with the government in propagating an anti‐Western imp…
Ranka Primorac. The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe
From Jo’burg to Jozi: Place and Pleasure in the New Johannesburg
This paper examines a number of stories describing contemporary Johannesburg from Heidi Holland and Adam Roberts’ edited collection From Jo’burg to Jozi: stories about Africa’s infamous city (2002). The objective is to show how the complexity of social and spatial mapping of the city invokes various themes and different narrative forms, which are sometimes intriguing and innovative, as shown by the combination of the journalistic report, factual …
Making memory: Stories fromStaffridermagazine and "testing" the popular imagination
Zimbabwean urban grooves and their subversive performance practices
This paper examines the role played by popular culture in response to the effects of the unfolding social and political repression on the ordinary Zimbabwean after 2000. The arts is one sector where the Zimbabwean government fostered its repressive hegemony. An urban youth music genre called ‘urban grooves’ rose to prominence during the period under focus here and some of the artists colluded with the government in propagating an anti‐Western imp…
Making memory: Stories fromStaffridermagazine and "testing" the popular imagination
Lawrence Hoba’s depiction of the post-2000 Zimbabwean land invasions in The Trek and Other Stories
The article examines Lawrence Hoba’s The Trek and Other Stories (2009), which describes experiences from the post-2000 land invasions and fast-track land reform in Zimbabwe. It analyses selected short stories in relation to other Zimbabwean fictional works about land and the definition and restoration of dignified and other identities lost during Rhodesian colonialism. The article also discusses the significance of the narrative style, especially…
Zimbabwean migrants in the United Kingdom, the new media and networks of survival during the period 2000–2007
This article examines the nature and significance of the ways in which some Zimbabwean migrants based in the United Kingdom (UK) appropriated the new media and established social and economic networks of survival during the period 2002–2007. An absence of a significant study of the nexus between migration, the recent diasporas and the formation of diasporic media by African, specifically, Zimbabwean migrants, makes an analysis of how migrants hav…
Nationhood and Ethnic Ideology: Examining Selected Cartoon Paratexts in Kwani
The paper interrogates the role of cartoons in the discursive construction of nationhood and national identity with a specific focus on cartoons published in a Kenyan literary magazine named Kwani? between 2007 and 2008. Kwani? employs cartoons to archive specific events in Kenyan history and articulate a particular view of 'Kenyanness'. Cartoons act as a disruptive art form that guides the process of making meaning out of a text. This function a…
Different narration, same history: The politics of writing ‘democratic narratives’ in Zimbabwe
Over the past five decades, Zimbabwe’s political trajectories were characterised by a historiographic revision and deconstruction that revealed varying ideological perceptions and positions of political actors. This article reconsiders the current shifts in the Zimbabwean historiography and focuses on the politics of positioning the self in the national narrative. The article analyses three Zimbabwean political autobiographies written by politica…
Tribute Chenjerai Hove (1956–2015)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
From Jo’burg to Jozi: Place and Pleasure in the New Johannesburg
This paper examines a number of stories describing contemporary Johannesburg from Heidi Holland and Adam Roberts’ edited collection From Jo’burg to Jozi: stories about Africa’s infamous city (2002). The objective is to show how the complexity of social and spatial mapping of the city invokes various themes and different narrative forms, which are sometimes intriguing and innovative, as shown by the combination of the journalistic report, factual …
Making memory: Stories fromStaffridermagazine and "testing" the popular imagination
Ranka Primorac. The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean urban grooves and their subversive performance practices
This paper examines the role played by popular culture in response to the effects of the unfolding social and political repression on the ordinary Zimbabwean after 2000. The arts is one sector where the Zimbabwean government fostered its repressive hegemony. An urban youth music genre called ‘urban grooves’ rose to prominence during the period under focus here and some of the artists colluded with the government in propagating an anti‐Western imp…
The aesthetics of Winky D's Zimbabwe urban grooves music and an overview of his social commentary on the post-2000 experiences in Harare and other urban centres
Winky D is a popular dancehall musician who has recently risen to prominence in Zimbabwe. The rise is partly linked to the Zimbabwe government's media reforms, through the Broadcasting Act (2001). It stipulated that radio stations should play 75% local music, as part of its anti-Western imperialism agenda, and thus led to the growth of the Zimbabwe urban grooves music. Albums such as Vanhu Vakuru (Big Man), Chatsva (Fired Up) and Com 2 Tek Ova de…
Imagining Post-2000 Zimbabwean Perceptions of Land and Notions on Identities in Catherine Buckle's African Tears: The Zimbabwe Land Invasions
The novel African Tears: The Zimbabwe Land Invasions (2002a) describes the traumatic experiences that the author, Catherine Buckle, a white owner of Stow Commercial Farm near Marondera, faced during the early phase of the land invasions. The novel portrays Buckle's experiences while under siege and until she is forced to leave the farm by the war veterans. Her experiences are a result of the anti-imperialism campaign seeking to redefine perceptio…
Zimbabwean migrants in the United Kingdom, the new media and networks of survival during the period 2000–2007
This article examines the nature and significance of the ways in which some Zimbabwean migrants based in the United Kingdom (UK) appropriated the new media and established social and economic networks of survival during the period 2002–2007. An absence of a significant study of the nexus between migration, the recent diasporas and the formation of diasporic media by African, specifically, Zimbabwean migrants, makes an analysis of how migrants hav…
Representations of the Post-2000 Zimbabwean Economic Migrancy in Petina Gappah’s An Elegy for Easterly and Brian Chikwava’s Harare North
The article examines the literary representations of the nexus between migration and the post-2000 crisis in Zimbabwe from the prism of post-colonialism and economic migrancy. It discusses Chikwava’s Harare North and Gappah’s An Elegy for Easterly mapping of the link between the local and the global, especially the way characters who migrate to “Harare North”—London, construct their aspirations, perceptions, and identities as they imagine the cri…
Everyday Experiences and Aspirations in Selected Lower Class Townships of Johannesburg
This paper examines the journalese narratives by Dibetle and Harber and Vladislavic’s fictional depiction of a selected Johannesburg lower class township experiences. The paper draws on concepts about walking in the city, everyday city cultures and imaginaries of city and township life discussed by critics such as De Certeau, Mbembe, Dlamini and Nuttall. It examines the nature and presence, in the selected townships, of the intersection between t…
Debunking the Zimbabwean Myth of Jikinya Dance in Ndhlala’s Jikinya and Zimunya’s “Jikinya” (Dancer) and “Jikinya” (An African Passion)
This article analyzes representations of the Zimbabwean jikinya dance myth by Geoffrey Ndhlala in the novel Jikinya and Musaemura Zimunya in the poetry anthology Kingfisher, Jikinya and other poems. It examines the different social and historical settings considered in Ndhlala’s Jikinya (pre-colonial Zimbabwe) and Zimunya’s “Jikinya” (Dancer) and “Jikinya” (An African Passion) (the colonial period of the 1970s Zimbabwean anti-colonial war), and d…
Tribute Chenjerai Hove (1956–2015)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
White Narratives: The depiction of post-2000 land invasions in Zimbabwe
The post-2000 period in Zimbabwe saw the launch of a fast track land reform programme, resulting in a flurry of accounts from white Zimbabweans about how they saw the land, the land invasions, and their own sense of belonging and identity. In White Narratives, Irikidzayi Manase engages with this fervent output of texts seeking definition of experiences, conflicts and ambiguities arising from the land invasions. He takes us through his study of te…
History, migration and identity in contemporary Zimbabwean biography as reflected in Peter Orner and Annie Holmes’ (2010)Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives
This article endeavours to establish the relationship between history, migration and identity in contemporary Zimbabwean biography as reflected in Peter Orner and Annie Holmes’ Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives. History is conceptualised as a heterogeneous discourse constitutive of conflictual and competing personal and public histories that contest for hegemony in defining individual and national identities. Through the power of narr…
Lawrence Hoba’s depiction of the post-2000 Zimbabwean land invasions in The Trek and Other Stories
The article examines Lawrence Hoba’s The Trek and Other Stories (2009), which describes experiences from the post-2000 land invasions and fast-track land reform in Zimbabwe. It analyses selected short stories in relation to other Zimbabwean fictional works about land and the definition and restoration of dignified and other identities lost during Rhodesian colonialism. The article also discusses the significance of the narrative style, especially…
Language Syncretism and the Expression of Youth Identities in Zimbabwe Urban Grooves Music
The Zimbabwe urban grooves music is an urban contemporary musical genre that fuses local and global rhythms and beats and is popular with youth. Afro diasporic genres such as Jamaican dancehall and the Euro-American rap and rhythm and blues (R&B) are appropriated by the youthful artists who sing predominantly in local languages (Shona and Ndebele) about the lived Zimbabwean experiences. Despite the dominant vernacular lyrics, there is a significa…
Different narration, same history: The politics of writing ‘democratic narratives’ in Zimbabwe
Over the past five decades, Zimbabwe’s political trajectories were characterised by a historiographic revision and deconstruction that revealed varying ideological perceptions and positions of political actors. This article reconsiders the current shifts in the Zimbabwean historiography and focuses on the politics of positioning the self in the national narrative. The article analyses three Zimbabwean political autobiographies written by politica…
Nationhood and Ethnic Ideology: Examining Selected Cartoon Paratexts in Kwani
The paper interrogates the role of cartoons in the discursive construction of nationhood and national identity with a specific focus on cartoons published in a Kenyan literary magazine named Kwani? between 2007 and 2008. Kwani? employs cartoons to archive specific events in Kenyan history and articulate a particular view of 'Kenyanness'. Cartoons act as a disruptive art form that guides the process of making meaning out of a text. This function a…
The Discourse of Secession in Novuyo Rosa Tshuma's House of Stone
This article examines the depiction of the discourse of secession in Novuyo Rosa Tshuma's House of Stone (2018). Borrowing insights on secession from international law and drawing on postcolonial concepts of identity formation and the theory of ethnicity as entry points, the article highlights the elusive nature of nation in Zimbabwe and affirms that the secessionist calls are a manifestation of the Ndebele people's struggles against the dialecti…
Law (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (14 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · History (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Art (10 works) · African history and culture studies (9 works) · Literature (9 works)