Overview

This two-volume set charts a cross-disciplinary discursive terrain that proffers rich insights about deceit in contemporary postcolonial Sub-Saharan African politics. In an attempt to produce a nuanced and multi-faceted academic dialoguing platform, the two volumes have a particular focus on the aspects of treachery, fear of difference (oppositional politics), and discourses/ semiotics of mis/self- representation. The major aim of the proposed volumes is to contribute toward the often problematised conversations about the unfolding (post)colonial Sub-Saharan world which is topical in decolonial and Pan-African studies. The volumes seek to place political thinking and postcolonial political systems under the scholarly gaze with the view to highlight and enhance the participation of African cross-disciplinary scholarship in the postcolonial political processes of the continent. Most significantly, it is through such probing of the limitations of our own disciplinary perspectives which can help us appreciate the complexity of the postcolonial Sub-Saharan African politics. The first volume uses Zimbabwe as a case study, while the second volume broadens to examine postcolonial politics in Sub-Saharan Africa more broadly.

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Author:   Esther Mavengano ,  Isaac Mhute
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.637kg
ISBN:  

9783031353222

ISBN 10:   3031353226
Pages:   370
Publication Date:   19 November 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: Contextualising the notion of deceit in the postcolonial  Zimbabwe’s political landscape Part I: Language/discourse and  a culture of deceit in  Zimbabwe’s politics Chapter 2: Crushing the Self and Propping the Other: The Language of (mis)representation in post-colonial Zimbabwe Chapter 3: The Politics of (il) legitimacy in African Governments.  A Case Of Operation Restore Legacy And The New Political Dispensation of 2017 in Zimbabwe Chapter 4: Postcolonial political landscape in Zimbabwe: A replica of a Shona traditional ‘Baboon and Hare’ Folktale Chapter 5: When deceit became an illustrious heroic event: A rhetorical analysis of Gukurahundi and ethnic (mis) representation discourses in post-independent Zimbabwe Part II:The poetic and sonic  narratives of deceit in the postcolonial Zimbabwe’s politics Chapter 6: The absence of phonation is not lack of speech: Memory and verbal silences in narrating (in) effable postcolonial malaise in contemporary Zimbabwean fictional oeuvre Chapter 7: Judaist culture in post-colonial agrarian reform in Zimbabwe: Gendered disillusionment, betrayal and land reclamation in Raymond’s Choto’s Vavariro (1990). Chapter 8: The Post-Independent Zimbabwe leadership and literary imaginings of betrayal in Ignatius. Mabasa`s Novel Mapenzi (1999). Chapter 9: Governmental Judasology in the ‘Zimbabwean Crisis’: The Potentially Accusatory Disposition(s) in Thomas Mapfumo’s Selected Songs Part III: The Media,   political conflict and  a culture of deceit in postcolonial Zimbabwe Chapter 10: Indigenous African Languages media and subaltern participation in Zimbabwe Deprivation and Deceitfulness: Theologizing the land reform program in post-independent Zimbabwe Chapter 11: The Paradox of POST – colonial Politics: The Zimbabwe False Dawns Chapter 12: The Politics of Legitimacy in African Governments.  A Case Of Operation Restore Legacy And Chapter 13: The New Political Dispensation of 2017 in Zimbabwe Chapter 14: Citizen or alien? Politics of urban control and the dis(ex)tortion of Democracy in Zimbabwe. Chapter 15: Conclusion

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Esther Mavengano is lecturer in English and Media Studies, Great Zimbabwe University, Zimbabwe.Isaac Mhute is Associate Professor of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe.

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