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Zimbabwe/Rhodesia writing home: Space, place, mobility and diasporic identity in selected novelsPhepheng, Maruping January 2021 (has links)
Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / This thesis examines how “unhomeliness” in a Zimbabwean context enjoins mobility
and the diasporic particularities that manifest as subjects move back and forth in a homemaking
journey between the country-side and the urban, as well as mobility to foreign
countries and back to the homeland. Particularities of inclusion and exclusion,
(re)emplacement, (re)identity, assimilation, rejection and (un)belonging, all loom large as
mobility, paradoxically, takes root and comes to shape experience in as significant a way as
being in a homeland or hostland. This thesis is also about the ways in which the “diasporic”
settler, in one of the novels which destabilises the familiar paradigms of diasporic literature,
can exist and be dominant in the foreign but colonised spatial setting without needing to
assimilate, and how this attempt to territorialise can traumatise those marginalised by the
settler community. Since the end of the twentieth century, there has been a rise in the
significance of space in humanities and literary studies. Theories about diaspora, identity and
belonging have featured strongly in works of scholars of space and place such as Henri
Lefebvre, Yi-Fu Tuan, Doreen Massey, Edward Soja, Tim Cresswell, Nigel Thrift, Robin
Cohen, John Agnew, and Kelly Baker. Space is largely regarded as a dimension within which
matter is located.
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Space, voice and authority : white critical thought on the Black Zimbabwean novelGwekwerere, Tavengwa 11 1900 (has links)
All bodies of critical discourse on any given literary canon seek visibility through self- celebration, subversion of competing critical ideas and identification with supposedly popular, scientific and incisive critical theories. Thus, the literary-critical quest for significance and visibility is, in essence, a quest for „space‟, „voice‟ and „authority‟ in the discussion of aspects of a given literary corpus. This research explores the politics of „space‟, „voice‟ and „authority‟ in „white critical thought‟ on „the black Zimbabwean novel‟. It unfolds in the context of the realisation that as a body of critical discourse on „the black Zimbabwean novel‟, „white critical thought‟ does not only emerge in an intellectual matrix in which it shares and competes for „space‟, „voice‟ and „authority‟ with other bodies of critical thought on the literary episteme in question; it also develops in the ambit of Euro-African cultural politics of hegemony and resistance. Thus, the
research sets out to identify the ways in which „white critical thought‟ affirms and perpetuates or questions and negates European critical benchmarks and cultural models in
the discussion of selected aspects of „the black Zimbabwean novel‟. The investigation considers the fissures at the heart of „white critical thought‟ as a critical discourse and the
myriad of ways in which it interacts with competing critical discourses on the „the black
Zimbabwean novel‟. It derives impetus from the fact that while other versions of critical
thought on „the black Zimbabwean novel‟ have received extensive metacritical discussion elsewhere, „white critical thought‟ remains largely under-discussed. This phenomenon enables it to solidify into a settled body of critical thought. The metacritical discussion of
„white critical thought‟ in this research constitutes part of the repertoire of efforts that
will help check the solidification of critical discourses into hegemonic bodies of thought. The research makes use of Afrocentric and Postcolonial critical tenets to advance the contention that while „white critical thought‟ on „the black Zimbabwean novel‟ is fraught with fissures and contradictions that speak directly to its complexity and resistance to neat categorisation, it is largely vulnerable to identification as part of the paraphernalia of European cultural and intellectual hegemony in African literature and its criticism, given its tendency to discuss the literature outside the context of critical theories that emerge from the same culture and history with the literary corpus in question. / African Languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)
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Space, voice and authority : white critical thought on the Black Zimbabwean novelGwekwerere, Tavengwa 11 1900 (has links)
All bodies of critical discourse on any given literary canon seek visibility through self- celebration, subversion of competing critical ideas and identification with supposedly popular, scientific and incisive critical theories. Thus, the literary-critical quest for significance and visibility is, in essence, a quest for „space‟, „voice‟ and „authority‟ in the discussion of aspects of a given literary corpus. This research explores the politics of „space‟, „voice‟ and „authority‟ in „white critical thought‟ on „the black Zimbabwean novel‟. It unfolds in the context of the realisation that as a body of critical discourse on „the black Zimbabwean novel‟, „white critical thought‟ does not only emerge in an intellectual matrix in which it shares and competes for „space‟, „voice‟ and „authority‟ with other bodies of critical thought on the literary episteme in question; it also develops in the ambit of Euro-African cultural politics of hegemony and resistance. Thus, the
research sets out to identify the ways in which „white critical thought‟ affirms and perpetuates or questions and negates European critical benchmarks and cultural models in
the discussion of selected aspects of „the black Zimbabwean novel‟. The investigation considers the fissures at the heart of „white critical thought‟ as a critical discourse and the
myriad of ways in which it interacts with competing critical discourses on the „the black
Zimbabwean novel‟. It derives impetus from the fact that while other versions of critical
thought on „the black Zimbabwean novel‟ have received extensive metacritical discussion elsewhere, „white critical thought‟ remains largely under-discussed. This phenomenon enables it to solidify into a settled body of critical thought. The metacritical discussion of
„white critical thought‟ in this research constitutes part of the repertoire of efforts that
will help check the solidification of critical discourses into hegemonic bodies of thought. The research makes use of Afrocentric and Postcolonial critical tenets to advance the contention that while „white critical thought‟ on „the black Zimbabwean novel‟ is fraught with fissures and contradictions that speak directly to its complexity and resistance to neat categorisation, it is largely vulnerable to identification as part of the paraphernalia of European cultural and intellectual hegemony in African literature and its criticism, given its tendency to discuss the literature outside the context of critical theories that emerge from the same culture and history with the literary corpus in question. / African Languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)
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