Polarising cultures, politics and communities and fracturing economies in Zimbabwean literature

Muchemwa, Kizito Z.

doi:10.1080/02533952.2011.660610

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“…165-166, Ranger 2004. The discursive construction of the Third Chimurenga and its patriotic history, which came to structure the political landscape after the formation of the opposition party MDC in 1999, has been described by Kizito Muchemwa as a product of the 'disruptive nature of the binaries that haunt the nation' (Muchemwa 2009). These binary oppositions have served to exclude political rivals of the ZANU-PF party from political legitimacy, most obviously the MDC.…”

Section: Nationalism Gender and Violencementioning

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Versions of violence: Zimbabwe's domestic violence law and symbolic politics of protection

Christiansen

2010

Review of African Political Economy

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This article argues that political uses of violence and discursive representations of violence are part of a political discourse of legitimacy in Zimbabwean politics, and that this discourse relies on a gendered power matrix in which acts of violence are depicted either as legitimate protection or as illegitimate aggression or terror. The analysis is based on public debates about domestic violence legislation and media representations of political uses of violence in 2006 and 2007. However, this is viewed as part of a longer history of political violence, entailing a symbolic politics of protection and political legitimacy, in which the protection of the nation's women figures as metonymy for ‘the people’ in need of protection.

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Section: Nationalism Gender and Violencementioning

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Versions of violence: Zimbabwe's domestic violence law and symbolic politics of protection

Christiansen

2010

Review of African Political Economy

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Food, Gender and the Crisis in Zimbabwe: An Approach to Virginia Phiri’s Highway Queen and Valerie Tagwira’s the Uncertainty of Hope

Nyambi

Mangena

2020

Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction

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Charms, Blessings and Compromises: Black Women’s Bodies and Decolonization in Panashe Chigumadzi’sSweet Medicine

Stobie

2018

English Academy Review

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Polarising cultures, politics and communities and fracturing economies in Zimbabwean literature

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Versions of violence: Zimbabwe's domestic violence law and symbolic politics of protection

Versions of violence: Zimbabwe's domestic violence law and symbolic politics of protection

Food, Gender and the Crisis in Zimbabwe: An Approach to Virginia Phiri’s Highway Queen and Valerie Tagwira’s the Uncertainty of Hope

Charms, Blessings and Compromises: Black Women’s Bodies and Decolonization in Panashe Chigumadzi’sSweet Medicine

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