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Developments in English
Author: International Association of University Professors of English. Conference
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1107038502
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Addresses current issues in corpus linguistics - methodological, theoretical and applied - with special reference to Englishes past and present.
Contested Liberations, Transitions and the Crisis in Zimbabwe
Author: Oliver Nyambi
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-04-04
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 900468297X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How and when does culture enter the discourse on liberation, transition and crisis in an African post-colony such as Zimbabwe? In a deeply polarised nation reeling from a difficult transition and an unrelenting economic crisis, it is increasingly becoming difficult for the ZANU PF regime to prescribe and enforce its monolithic concept of liberation. This book culls, from contemporary (counter)cultures of liberation and transition, the state of liberations in Zimbabwe. It explores how culture has functioned as a complex site where rigid state-authored liberations are legitimated and naturalised but also where they are negotiated, contested and subverted.
The Media of Diaspora
Author: Karim H. Karim
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-08-29
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1134467214
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Media of Diaspora examines how diasporic communities have used new communications media to maintain and develop community ties on a local and transnational level. This collection of essays from a wide range of different diasporic contexts is a unique contribution to the field.
A Chronicle of Modern Sunlight
Author: W. G. Eaton
Publisher: Innovision
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 204
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Strategies of Representation in Auto/biography
Author: M. Hove
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-05-13
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1137340339
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Strategies of Representation in Auto/biography investigates how selves are represented and reconstructed in selected auto/biographical readings from African literary discourse. It examines how such representations confirm, validate, interrogate and pervade conversations with issues of identity, nation and history. In addition to providing an overview of the multidimensionality of auto/biography, the book also introduces readers to various ways of reading and analysing auto/biographical writings and develops specific perspectives on the genre and views inherently expressed through the re-imagined, re-membered and re-constructed self that speaks through the pages of autobiographical scripting. The focus on auto/biographical writings from southern Africa, specifically South Africa and Zimbabwe, offers a fresh reading of the work of significant figures in the political, economic and sociological spheres of these nation states. This collection shows that auto/biography may be more than simply the representation of an individual life, and that the socio-cultural memory of a people is a core aspect influencing individual self-representation.
Gendering the Settler State
Author: Kate Law
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-11-06
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1317425367
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →White women cut an ambivalent figure in the transnational history of the British Empire. They tend to be remembered as malicious harridans personifying the worst excesses of colonialism, as vacuous fusspots, whose lives were punctuated by a series of frivolous pastimes, or as casualties of patriarchy, constrained by male actions and gendered ideologies. This book, which places itself amongst other "new imperial histories", argues that the reality of the situation, is of course, much more intricate and complex. Focusing on post-war colonial Rhodesia, Gendering the Settler State provides a fine-grained analysis of the role(s) of white women in the colonial enterprise, arguing that they held ambiguous and inconsistent views on a variety of issues including liberalism, gender, race and colonialism.
Robert Mugabe and the Betrayal of Zimbabwe
Author: Andrew Norman
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-04-22
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1476616701
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Instead of leading his people to the "promised land," Mugabe, the first prime minister of the newly-named Zimbabwe, has amassed a fortune for himself, his family and followers and has presided over the murder, torture and starvation of those who oppose him. This biography offers some explanations for Mugabe's behavior. With the death of his wife in 1992, a moderating influence was lost, and as the years go by, he continues to show himself intolerant of any opposition as he proceeds toward the creation of a one-party state, even though evidence suggests that his country is in terminal decline.
Settlers at the end of empire
Author: Jean P. Smith
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2022-07-12
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1526145472
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Settlers at the end of empire traces the development of racialised migration regimes in South Africa, Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) and the United Kingdom from the Second World War to the end of apartheid in 1994. While South Africa and Rhodesia, like other settler colonies, had a long history of restricting the entry of migrants of colour, in the 1960s under existential threat and after abandoning formal ties with the Commonwealth they began to actively recruit white migrants, the majority of whom were British. At the same time, with the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act, the British government began to implement restrictions aimed at slowing the migration of British subjects of colour. In all three nations, these policies were aimed at the preservation of nations imagined as white, revealing the persistence of the racial ideologies of empire across the era of decolonisation.
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being
Author: Rory Pilossof
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 177922169X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The history of colonial land alienation, the grievances fuelling the liberation war, and post-independence land reforms have all been grist to the mill of recent scholarship on Zimbabwe. Yet for all that the country's white farmers have received considerable attention from academics and journalists, the fact that they have always played a dynamic role in cataloguing and representing their own affairs has gone unremarked. It is this crucial dimension that Rory Pilossof explores in The Unbearable Whiteness of Being. His examination of farmers' voices - in The Farmer magazine, in memoirs, and in recent interviews - reveals continuities as well as breaks in their relationships with land, belonging and race. His focus on the Liberation War, Operation Gukurahundi and the post-2000 land invasions frames a nuanced understanding of how white farmers engaged with the land and its peoples, and the political changes of the past 40 years. The Unbearable Whiteness of Being helps to explain why many of the events in the countryside unfolded in the ways they did.
