The Unbearable Whiteness of Being
Land, Race and Belonging in the Memoirs of White Zimbabweans
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5800265 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rory Pilossof (0000-0003-3952-0786, University of Sheffield, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 621-638 |
| Publication date | 2009-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South African Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0258-2473 • E-ISSN: 1726-1686 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02582470903189899 |
| OpenAlex | W2000133485 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 16 |
As the crisis in Zimbabwe deepened after 2000, the plight of white Zimbabweans became international news. In turn, this created the space and the market for whites to tell and sell their story; an opportunity that has not gone unheeded. This review essay focuses on several examples of the latest evolution of Zimbabwe's white writing. While in no way trying to excuse or belittle the atrocious events that have happened to white farmers and others, what follows will probe the narratives produced to uncover some of the more troubling iterations and silences contained in them. In doing so, this review will illustrate many of the troubling continuities this genre of writing has with its colonial roots, not only in the audience it writes for or the way it 'trains its gaze', but also in the way it treats 'Africa', 'Africans' and the dilemmas of belonging
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Privileged Precariat
Subjectivity and Belonging in the Poetry of Bart Wolffe
Re-examining Settler Discourse in Alexandra Fuller’s Autobiographical Writing
The discursive approach to place attachment explored through talk about places of residence produced by UK residents from Zimbabwe
War and Migration in the White African Tropics
Home and belonging in Irene Sabatini’s The Boy Next Door and Andrea Eames’ The Cry of the Go-Away Bird
Reinventing Significance
Don't Let's Look at the Nanny
Mostly we are White and Alone
Make Afrikaners great again! National populism, democracy and the new white minority politics in post-apartheid South Africa
Not all whites are farmers
Land and racial domination in Rhodesia
An economic and social history of Zimbabwe, 1890-1948
Reclaiming the Land
The Invention of Africa
‘Rhodesians Never Die’
Bram Fischer and the question of identity
The Historiography of Land in Zimbabwe
Marxism and Marxist Intellectuals in Schizophrenic Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Now
Whites and Water
On the Postcolony
Land Reform in Zimbabwe, 1980–1990
The Novel in a House of Stone
The Poetics of State Terror in Twenty-First Century Zimbabwe
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2023 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |