Anias Mutekwa
Biographic Data
| ID | 74069 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anias Mutekwa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anias |
| FAMILY NAME | Mutekwa |
| SIGNATURE | MUTEKWA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Midlands State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5250-0830 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ophir in a Postcolony? Metaphor, Coloniality and Decoloniality in Paul Freeman's Rumours of Ophir
Masculinities and the “colonial unconscious” in Shimmer Chinodya’s Dew in the Morning
This article examines the gendered dynamics surrounding masculinity and the "colonial unconscious" in Shimmer Chinodya's novel, Dew in the Morning, in the context of its narrated and narrative times. These are situated in, and emanate from, the encounter between colonized black African subjects, namely migrants and indigenes, set apart by different degrees of assimilation of colonial modernity in an unnamed area in Northern Zimbabwe. The article …
Mapping Postcolonial Marginalisation and Reactive/Adaptive Models of Masculinity
This article examines the representation of postcolonial marginalisation and adaptive/reactive models of masculinity in NoViolet Bulawayo’s novel, We Need New Names. It focuses on the representations of masculinities in the text and their ramifications and entanglements at the global, regional and local levels. The analysis is mediated via a triangulation of the concepts of hegemonic masculinity, masculine (over)compensation and masculine hybridi…
An Analysis of Intertextual Entanglements in Shimmer Chinodya’s Chairman of Fools
This article examines intertextuality in Shimmer Chinodya’s Chairman of Fools (Harare: Weaver Press, 2005), focusing on the novel’s entanglement with earlier texts and its extra-literary context. It argues that the text exhibits generic, stylistic, and thematic entanglements with its precursor texts, particularly Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions (Harare: Zimbabwe Publishing House, 1988) and Dambudzo Marechera’s Mindblast, or, the Definitiv…
The journey motif, childhood, race and nation in Sandra Braude’sMpho’s search(1994)
This article is a reading of Sandra Braude’s novel, Mpho’s Search (1994), which is set in apartheid South Africa, in the context of race, nation and its status as a children’s literature text. It argues that the trope of childhood and the trajectory of the life of the eponymous character in the text are entangled with the discourses of race, subjugation and national liberation and transformation. It explores how the narrative uses the journey mot…
Through a Charged Field
This article explores the dialogic nature of spiritual and patriarchal discourses in Solomon Mutswairo's novel Chaminuka: Prophet of Zimbabwe and the extent to which they conform to Bakhtinian notions of authoritative and internally persuasive discourses in the polylogical nature of truly novelistic text. It establishes that, in this novel, spiritual discourse is unstable and inhabits the liminal space between authoritative and internally persuas…
“In This Wound of Life …”
This article is a reading of Chenjerai Hove’s poetry volume Red Hills of Home (1985) as a dystopia. It locates this text within the context of the evolving postcolonial realities of the first decade of Zimbabwe’s independence. It argues that the text is informed by a dystopian import and sensibility in which forlornness, hopelessness, angst, bewilderment, pain, and betrayal mark the lived experiences of the mainly subaltern subjects who people it…
The female body and voice in audiovisual political propaganda jingles
Zimbabwe's post-2000 political terrain has been highly polarised and contested; a minefield requiring political resourcefulness to negotiate. Political actors in this terrain have employed an array of political and cultural tools, ranging from discourses of black empowerment and democratisation, to written texts and performances of political propaganda to garner support from the electorate and gain political mileage. This article explores the lit…
Supra-masculinities and supra-femininities in Solomon Mutsvairo'sChaminuka
This essay is a contribution towards gaining conceptual clarity with regard to the task of understanding masculinities and femininities, especially in the Zimbabwean Shona context. Our argument is that masculinities and femininities in Zimbabwean Shona society have what we term in this essay a ‘supra’ dimension that is spiritual, and it is this supra dimension that we submit has not been given attention in critical discourses on masculinities and…
From "boys" to "men"? African and black masculinities, triangular desire, race, and subalternity in Charles Mungoshi's short stories
This article looks at African and black men and masculinities, triangulated desire, race, and subalternity in Charles Mungoshi’s short story collections. It examines the negotiation of desire, and its interface and interplay with power relations and their negotiation in the colonial and postcolonial economies of domination and gender as depicted in the short stories. It uses the Gramscian concept of hegemony, Girard’s mimetic theory of triangular…
Gendered globalisation discourses
This article explores the discursive construct of globalisation through the prism of gender and its implications for and effects on the quest for an African Renaissance. It argues that since humans are gendered, so human institutions and discourses such as globalisation are permeated and informed by the discourse of gender and the hierarchies inherent in them. Since discourses on the African Renaissance are conceptualised and framed within the he…
Destabilizing and Subverting Patriarchal and Eurocentric Notions of Time
This article explores the notion of time as conceptualized and articulated in Chenjerai Hove’s Bones and Ancestors. These texts, as this article sets out to demonstrate, are characterized by a deliberate attempt to subvert and transcend the Eurocentric and patriarchal notions of time as premised and predicated on linearity and progression. The authors argue, as is reflected in the texts, that these notions of time are a simplistic model and do no…
The Avenging Spirit
Spirit possession is a central trope in Zimbabwean literature, not only in English, but also in indigenous languages. This article looks at the avenging spirit as it is manifested in Zimbabwean literature in English from the colonial days to the present, and uses postcolonial theory and Lewis's social deprivation theory in the exploration. It shows how this trope, under colonialism, is used to represent contesting power discourses that seek a str…
Gendered beings, gendered discourses
This article aims to explore the gendering of race, colonialism and anti colonial nationalism in selected novels from the Zimbabwean literary canon with the view of showing how this gendering affected different facets of colonial life and, by implication, post independence life. It relies on the Gramscian concept of hegemony in terms of how it refers to gender, particularly masculinities. The selected texts, A Son of the Soil by Wilson Katiyo, Th…
The Avenging Spirit
Spirit possession is a central trope in Zimbabwean literature, not only in English, but also in indigenous languages. This article looks at the avenging spirit as it is manifested in Zimbabwean literature in English from the colonial days to the present, and uses postcolonial theory and Lewis's social deprivation theory in the exploration. It shows how this trope, under colonialism, is used to represent contesting power discourses that seek a str…
Gendered beings, gendered discourses
This article aims to explore the gendering of race, colonialism and anti colonial nationalism in selected novels from the Zimbabwean literary canon with the view of showing how this gendering affected different facets of colonial life and, by implication, post independence life. It relies on the Gramscian concept of hegemony in terms of how it refers to gender, particularly masculinities. The selected texts, A Son of the Soil by Wilson Katiyo, Th…
The female body and voice in audiovisual political propaganda jingles
Zimbabwe's post-2000 political terrain has been highly polarised and contested; a minefield requiring political resourcefulness to negotiate. Political actors in this terrain have employed an array of political and cultural tools, ranging from discourses of black empowerment and democratisation, to written texts and performances of political propaganda to garner support from the electorate and gain political mileage. This article explores the lit…
The journey motif, childhood, race and nation in Sandra Braude’sMpho’s search(1994)
This article is a reading of Sandra Braude’s novel, Mpho’s Search (1994), which is set in apartheid South Africa, in the context of race, nation and its status as a children’s literature text. It argues that the trope of childhood and the trajectory of the life of the eponymous character in the text are entangled with the discourses of race, subjugation and national liberation and transformation. It explores how the narrative uses the journey mot…
From "boys" to "men"? African and black masculinities, triangular desire, race, and subalternity in Charles Mungoshi's short stories
This article looks at African and black men and masculinities, triangulated desire, race, and subalternity in Charles Mungoshi’s short story collections. It examines the negotiation of desire, and its interface and interplay with power relations and their negotiation in the colonial and postcolonial economies of domination and gender as depicted in the short stories. It uses the Gramscian concept of hegemony, Girard’s mimetic theory of triangular…
Destabilizing and Subverting Patriarchal and Eurocentric Notions of Time
This article explores the notion of time as conceptualized and articulated in Chenjerai Hove’s Bones and Ancestors. These texts, as this article sets out to demonstrate, are characterized by a deliberate attempt to subvert and transcend the Eurocentric and patriarchal notions of time as premised and predicated on linearity and progression. The authors argue, as is reflected in the texts, that these notions of time are a simplistic model and do no…
Gendered beings, gendered discourses
This article aims to explore the gendering of race, colonialism and anti colonial nationalism in selected novels from the Zimbabwean literary canon with the view of showing how this gendering affected different facets of colonial life and, by implication, post independence life. It relies on the Gramscian concept of hegemony in terms of how it refers to gender, particularly masculinities. The selected texts, A Son of the Soil by Wilson Katiyo, Th…
The Avenging Spirit
Spirit possession is a central trope in Zimbabwean literature, not only in English, but also in indigenous languages. This article looks at the avenging spirit as it is manifested in Zimbabwean literature in English from the colonial days to the present, and uses postcolonial theory and Lewis's social deprivation theory in the exploration. It shows how this trope, under colonialism, is used to represent contesting power discourses that seek a str…
Destabilizing and Subverting Patriarchal and Eurocentric Notions of Time
This article explores the notion of time as conceptualized and articulated in Chenjerai Hove’s Bones and Ancestors. These texts, as this article sets out to demonstrate, are characterized by a deliberate attempt to subvert and transcend the Eurocentric and patriarchal notions of time as premised and predicated on linearity and progression. The authors argue, as is reflected in the texts, that these notions of time are a simplistic model and do no…
Gendered globalisation discourses
This article explores the discursive construct of globalisation through the prism of gender and its implications for and effects on the quest for an African Renaissance. It argues that since humans are gendered, so human institutions and discourses such as globalisation are permeated and informed by the discourse of gender and the hierarchies inherent in them. Since discourses on the African Renaissance are conceptualised and framed within the he…
“In This Wound of Life …”
This article is a reading of Chenjerai Hove’s poetry volume Red Hills of Home (1985) as a dystopia. It locates this text within the context of the evolving postcolonial realities of the first decade of Zimbabwe’s independence. It argues that the text is informed by a dystopian import and sensibility in which forlornness, hopelessness, angst, bewilderment, pain, and betrayal mark the lived experiences of the mainly subaltern subjects who people it…
The female body and voice in audiovisual political propaganda jingles
Zimbabwe's post-2000 political terrain has been highly polarised and contested; a minefield requiring political resourcefulness to negotiate. Political actors in this terrain have employed an array of political and cultural tools, ranging from discourses of black empowerment and democratisation, to written texts and performances of political propaganda to garner support from the electorate and gain political mileage. This article explores the lit…
Supra-masculinities and supra-femininities in Solomon Mutsvairo'sChaminuka
This essay is a contribution towards gaining conceptual clarity with regard to the task of understanding masculinities and femininities, especially in the Zimbabwean Shona context. Our argument is that masculinities and femininities in Zimbabwean Shona society have what we term in this essay a ‘supra’ dimension that is spiritual, and it is this supra dimension that we submit has not been given attention in critical discourses on masculinities and…
From "boys" to "men"? African and black masculinities, triangular desire, race, and subalternity in Charles Mungoshi's short stories
This article looks at African and black men and masculinities, triangulated desire, race, and subalternity in Charles Mungoshi’s short story collections. It examines the negotiation of desire, and its interface and interplay with power relations and their negotiation in the colonial and postcolonial economies of domination and gender as depicted in the short stories. It uses the Gramscian concept of hegemony, Girard’s mimetic theory of triangular…
Through a Charged Field
This article explores the dialogic nature of spiritual and patriarchal discourses in Solomon Mutswairo's novel Chaminuka: Prophet of Zimbabwe and the extent to which they conform to Bakhtinian notions of authoritative and internally persuasive discourses in the polylogical nature of truly novelistic text. It establishes that, in this novel, spiritual discourse is unstable and inhabits the liminal space between authoritative and internally persuas…
The journey motif, childhood, race and nation in Sandra Braude’sMpho’s search(1994)
This article is a reading of Sandra Braude’s novel, Mpho’s Search (1994), which is set in apartheid South Africa, in the context of race, nation and its status as a children’s literature text. It argues that the trope of childhood and the trajectory of the life of the eponymous character in the text are entangled with the discourses of race, subjugation and national liberation and transformation. It explores how the narrative uses the journey mot…
An Analysis of Intertextual Entanglements in Shimmer Chinodya’s Chairman of Fools
This article examines intertextuality in Shimmer Chinodya’s Chairman of Fools (Harare: Weaver Press, 2005), focusing on the novel’s entanglement with earlier texts and its extra-literary context. It argues that the text exhibits generic, stylistic, and thematic entanglements with its precursor texts, particularly Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions (Harare: Zimbabwe Publishing House, 1988) and Dambudzo Marechera’s Mindblast, or, the Definitiv…
Masculinities and the “colonial unconscious” in Shimmer Chinodya’s Dew in the Morning
This article examines the gendered dynamics surrounding masculinity and the "colonial unconscious" in Shimmer Chinodya's novel, Dew in the Morning, in the context of its narrated and narrative times. These are situated in, and emanate from, the encounter between colonized black African subjects, namely migrants and indigenes, set apart by different degrees of assimilation of colonial modernity in an unnamed area in Northern Zimbabwe. The article …
Mapping Postcolonial Marginalisation and Reactive/Adaptive Models of Masculinity
This article examines the representation of postcolonial marginalisation and adaptive/reactive models of masculinity in NoViolet Bulawayo’s novel, We Need New Names. It focuses on the representations of masculinities in the text and their ramifications and entanglements at the global, regional and local levels. The analysis is mediated via a triangulation of the concepts of hegemonic masculinity, masculine (over)compensation and masculine hybridi…
Ophir in a Postcolony? Metaphor, Coloniality and Decoloniality in Paul Freeman's Rumours of Ophir
Sociology (11 works) · Art (9 works) · History (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (9 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works)