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Destabilizing and Subverting Patriarchal and Eurocentric Notions of Time An Analysis of Chenjerai Hove’s Bones and Ancestors
Terrence Musanga,Anias Mutekwa +1 more
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This article explored the notion of time as conceptualized and articulated in Chenjerai Hove's Bones and Ancestors and argued that these notions of time are a simplistic model and do not reflect the diversity that characterize and constitute human experience.Abstract:
This article explores the notion of time as conceptualized and articulated in Chenjerai Hove’s Bones and Ancestors. These texts, as this article sets out to demonstrate, are characterized by a deliberate attempt to subvert and transcend the Eurocentric and patriarchal notions of time as premised and predicated on linearity and progression. The authors argue, as is reflected in the texts, that these notions of time are a simplistic model and do not reflect the diversity that characterize and constitute human experience. These notions of time are premised on linearity and progression, and so they repress and stifle the existence of other and alternative narratives of history, time, and experience as demonstrated in the texts.read more
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Return of the Pre-Colonial Environment? Land Questions and the Environmental Imagination of Nationhood in Southern African Literature
TL;DR: The authors argue that selected Southern African literatures take on what I consider to be an environmental imagination of nationhood, engaging schisms between governmental and popular conceptions of land, and argue that Southern African literature participates in contests over "environment,” squaring developmental and community concepts, urging epistemic reevaluation.
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Zimbabwe's Fictions and Rebellious Entextualisation: “All the xenophobia, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia and yugoslavia”
TL;DR: The essay as mentioned in this paper comparatively scrutinizes the world-making potential of two Zimbabwean novels (Chenjerai Hove's 1988. Bones. Harare: Baobab Books; Bones and Brian Chikwava's 2009).
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The Wretched of the Earth
TL;DR: Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth as mentioned in this paper is a classic of post-colonization political analysis, and it is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers.
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