Universal, Normative, and Indispensable
Exploring the Emphasis on Eurocentric Literary-Critical Perspectives in the Criticism of the Black Zimbabwean Novel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7841736 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Gwekwerere (0000-0002-4661-816X, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 801-819 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Black Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9347 • E-ISSN: 1552-4566 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0021934718798256 |
| OpenAlex | W2890487836 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
Literary-critical discourse on the Black Zimbabwean novel constitutes one of several platforms on which the self-other dialectic in Zimbabwe finds expression. This is especially the case at the level of literary-critical theory where the tendency is to advance arguments that frame Afrocentric and Eurocentric literary-critical theories as mutually exclusive. In this article, I explore the scholarship of Flora Veit-Wild and Ranka Primorac on the Black Zimbabwean novel with a view to discoursing the ways in which it can be argued that in their discussion of the corpus, the two scholars are anchored in the Eurocentric framework. In pursuing this objective, I focus on the critics’ reliance on Eurocentric literary-critical theories and apparent discomfiture with Afrocentric benchmarks in their criticism of the Black Zimbabwean novel. Thus, I argue in this article that while the version of critical discourse discussed here speaks to the complex and contradictory ways in which cultures find places of translation and dialogic engagement where history is made, the overall impression created by Veit-Wild and Primorac in their criticism of the Black Zimbabwean novel is that Eurocentric perspectives are universal, normative, and indispensable
Aesthetics · Art · Critical theory · Criticism · Dialectic · Dialogic · Epistemology · Historical criticism · Linguistics · Literary criticism · Literary science · Literary theory · Literature · Normative · Political science · Postcolonialism (international relations · Scholarship · Sociology · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |