Heteroglossia and the Destabilisation of Authorial Voice in Bruce Moore-King’s White Man Black War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20156586 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cuthbeth Tagwirei (0000-0002-2814-2794, University of the Free State, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 52-64 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387 |
| Publisher | Unisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02564718.2019.1657282 |
| OpenAlex | W2981209685 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Through a reading of Moore-King's White Man Black War, this article seeks to demonstrate that white Zimbabwean narratives belong to a heteroglot world, a world of multiple languages, which destabilises the assumed monologism of the white Zimbabwean literary canon. White Man Black War privileges an authorial ideology at the expense of other voices in its pursuit of a single "Truth", something which reflects Zimbabwe's critical tradition that sees coherence in the white Zimbabwean literary canon. This tendency is not only predicated on a fallacy, that monologue is possible, but provides the impetus to relegate other voices and narratives to the margins. Regardless, even where monologue appears to be privileged, it is nevertheless unattainable. By incorporating other voices into its narrative design, even with the intention of containing these voices, White Man Black War is internally destabilised to the extent that its voice(s) become multiple and conflictual. In such a scenario neither the individual text nor the literary archive can be successfully unitary
Art · Ideology · Literature · Narrative · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · History · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |