Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 295 g
Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 295 g
Reihe: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
ISBN: 978-1-138-84350-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
The return of land has been central to the material and cultural struggles for decolonization in Southern Africa, yet between the advent of democracy in Zimbabwe (1980) and South Africa (1994) and Zimbabwe’s decision to fast-track land redistribution in 2000, it has been limited land reform rather than widespread land redistribution that has prevailed. During this period nationalist discourses of reconciliation and economic development replaced those of revolution and decolonization. This book develops a critique of both forms of nationalistic narrative by focusing on how different and often opposing idea of land and nation are reflected, refracted and even refused in the fictions.
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Introduction: Writing the Land in Southern Africa: From ‘an endless drama of domicile and challenge’ to ‘a country with land but no habitat’
Chapter One: Possessions: Nationalisms and ‘the land’ in Zimbabwean Fiction 1975-1988
Chapter Two: Repossessions: Subterranean (Trans)nationalisms in South African Fiction 1969-1979
Chapter Three: Reconstructions: Abjection and the Re-writing of Cultural Nationalism in Zimbabwean Fiction 1989-2002
Chapter Four: From Repossession to Reform: A New Terrain in South African Fiction 1990-2000
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