13 research outputs found

    Kufamba-famba: A Walk, A Man, A Memoir

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    Whenever my grandfather said, “I’ve no story to tell you now, let’s go walking-walking”, it meant he had plenty of stories to tell me. But he had to think on his feet first as a starter motor for his storytelling. As he led the way out of his homestead, I knew there was method and theory in the lurching, humped body in front, behind or beside me, for whom walking was like the ignition key he needed to restart and then let his mind run idle. Behind his need to think in motion, to marry walking limb to speaking tongue, was a clearly thought-out interactive heuristic approach to knowledge sharing while re-enacting the walk of life. This interaction with my grandfather, which he called walking-walking, inspired my own creative practice when writing The Scandalous Times of a Book Louse: A Memoir of a Childhood (2021). It reminded me of the many recapitulations involved in routines of walking-walking—kufamba-famba in the Shona language—which are rhizomatic, recursive and new at the same time. Presented in this essay memoir are snatches of thoughts on a creative practice formed from walking-walking or when recalling its motions, adventures and hurdles

    Childhood, history and resistance: a critical study of the images of children and childhood in Zimbabwean literature in English

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    Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities, School of Literature and Language Studies, 2005

    The family and the search for reconciliation in south Africa: a review of Rayda Jacobs’ my father’s orchid (2006)

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    Published by Routledge in Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa journa

    Pliz cal me: a fictional essay on cellffairs in cellfares

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    Manning the Nation. Father Figures in Zimbabwean Literature and Society

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    Gender studies in Zimbabwe have tended to focus on women and their comparative disadvantages and under-privilege. Assuming a broader perspective is necessary at a time when society has grown used to arguments rooted in binaries: colonised and coloniser, race and class, sex and gender, poverty and wealth, patriotism and terrorism, etc. The editors of Manning the Nation recognise that concepts of manhood can be used to repress or liberate, and will depend on historical and political imperatives; they seek to introduce a more nuanced perspective to the interconnectivity of patriarchy, masculinity, the nation, and its image. The essays in this volume come from well-respected academics working in a variety of fields. The ideals and concepts of manhood are examined as they are reflected in important Zimbabwean literary texts. However, if literature provides a rich vein for the analysis of masculinities, what makes this collection so interesting is the interplay of literary analysis with chapters that provide a critical examination of the ways in which ideals of manhood have been employed in, for example, leadership and the nation, as a justification for violent engagement, in the field of AIDS and HIV, etc. Manning the Nation: Father figures in Zimbabwean literature and society sets the stage for a fresh and engaging discourse essential at a time when new paradigms are needed
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