Life-Writing from the Margins in Zimbabwe

Versions and Subversions of Crisis

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ID23511535
AuthorsOliver Nyambi (0000-0002-7080-9951)
Year2019
Pages236
Publication date2019-05-20
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueLife-Writing from the Margins in Zimbabwe (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780429434693
OpenAlexW4243096224
Open LibraryOL52547146M
ISBN9780429434693
LanguageEN
Citations received3

This book explores the unique contributions of various forms of post-2000 life-writings such as the autobiography, epistles, and biographies, to discourses about the nature and socio-politics of what has become known as the Zimbabwean crisis (c. 2000–2009). Much of what has been written about the Zimbabwean crisis – a decade-long period of unprecedented economic collapse and political upheavals in the southern African country – is strictly discipline-specific and therefore limited to unidimensional modes of theorising the crisis’s many and complex dimensions and dynamics. In this context, this book charts a paradigm shift in hermeneutic and epistemological approaches to comprehending the Zimbabwean crisis. Life-Writing from the Margins in Zimbabwe centres the experiences and memories of ordinary Zimbabweans in pluralizing modes of seeing and knowing the crisis. The book argues that these life-writings present a rich site for encountering versions of the crisis that relate in counter-discursive ways, to the dominant, state-authored narrative of the nation in crisis. Oliver Nyambi’s analysis contributes new ideas to ongoing debates about how cultural texts reflect on the postcoloniality of both power, and experiences and negotiations of power in the context of crisis. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of African literature, Zimbabwean/African studies, postcolonial literature, life-writing and cultural studies.

Art · Life writing · Literature · Narrative · Political science · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · History · African · Autobiography · Biographie (Genre littéraire) · Biographies (literary works) · Biographies as Topic · Biography & Autobiography · Biography as a literary form · Literary · Literary Criticism · Social conditions · Zimbabwe · Zimbabwean Authors

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