Redemptive or Grotesque Nationalism : Rethinking Contemporary Politics in Zimbabwe.
Title:
Redemptive or Grotesque Nationalism : Rethinking Contemporary Politics in Zimbabwe.
Author:
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J.
ISBN:
9783035301076
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (450 pages)
Series:
Nationalisms across the Globe ; v.3
Nationalisms across the Globe
Contents:
Contents -- Foreword ix -- Acknowledgements xi -- Chronology of Events xiii -- List of Acronyms xxi -- 1. Introduction: Redemptive or Grotesque Nationalism in the Postcolony? 1 -- Part 1 History, War and Masculinity 33 -- 2. Beyond the Drama of War: Trajectories of Nationalism in Zimbabwe, the 1890s to 2010 35 -- 3. History as Witchcraft: The Narcissism of Warrior Masculinities in Edmund Chipamaunga's War and Post-War Novels 81 -- 4. 'War Vet Nation'?: Beyond 'Guerrilla Nationalism' and the Search for Other Nationalisms in Zimbabwe 107 -- 5. Masculinity (Dodaism), Gender and Nationalism: The Case of the Salisbury Bus Boycott, September 1956 133 -- Part 2 Citizenship, Identity and Diversity 153 -- 6. Language Policy, Citizenship and Discourses of Exclusion in Zimbabwe 155 -- 7. Silenced Visions of Citizenship, Democracy and Nation: African MPs in Rhodesian Parliaments, 1963-1978 187 -- 8. One Zimbabwe Many Faces: The Quest for Political Pluralism in Postcolonial Zimbabwe 217 -- 9. What Blacks, Which Africans and in Whose Zimbabwe? Pan-Africanism, Race and the Politics of Belonging in Postcolonial Zimbabwe 261 -- Part 3 Media, Ideology and Propaganda 289 -- 10. The Third Chimurenga: Land and Song in Zimbabwe's Ultra-Nationalist State Ideology, 2000-2007 291 -- 11. 'Powerful Centre' Versus 'Powerless Periphery'? Postcolonial Encounters, Global Media and Nationalism in the 'Zimbabwe Crisis' 315.
Abstract:
At the beginning of 2000, with the launch of the so-called Third Chimurenga, Zimbabwean nationalism revealed some of its most grotesque aspects, resulting in a polarisation of the nation into 'patriots' and 'sell-outs' and dividing academics into groups such as 'regime intellectuals', left-nationalists, left-internationalists, 'nativists' and 'neo-liberals'. Drawing upon the arguments and insights of an array of scholars, many based in Zimbabwe, this book offers a new analysis of the grotesque character of Zimbabwean nationalism, a nationalism that has provoked ambivalent responses locally, regionally and internationally.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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