Research Catalog

Title

Cultures of change in contemporary Zimbabwe : socio-political transition from Mugabe to Mnangagwa / edited by Oliver Nyambi, Tendai Mangena and Gibson Ncube.

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• Nyambi, Oliver
• Mangena, Tendai
• Ncube, Gibson

Description

xiii, 258 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"This book investigates how culture is used to reflect on change in Zimbabwe, focusing predominantly on Mnangagwa's 2017 coup, but also uncovering deeper roots for how renewal and transition are conceived in the country. Since Emmerson Mnangagwa ousted Robert Mugabe in 2017, he has been keen to define his 'Second Republic' or 'New Dispensation' with a rhetoric of change and a rejection of past political and economic cultures. This multi- and inter-disciplinary volume looks to the (social) media, language/discourse, theatre, images, political speeches, and literary fiction and non-fiction to see how they have reflected on this time of unprecedented upheaval. The book argues that themes of self-renewal stretch right back to the formative years of the ZANU PF, and that despite the longevity of Mugabe's tenure, the latest transition can be seen as part of a complex and protracted layering of post-colonial social, economic and political changes. Providing an innovative investigation of how political change in Zimbabwe is reflected on in cultural texts and products, this book will be of interest to researchers across African history, literature, politics, culture, and post-colonial studies"--

Series Statement

Routledge contemporary Africa

Uniform Title

Routledge contemporary Africa series.

Subject

• 2017
• Social change > Zimbabwe
• Literature
• Social change
• Social conditions
• Zimbabwe > Social conditions
• Zimbabwe > History > Coup d'état, 2017
• Zimbabwe > In literature
• Zimbabwe

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I: Spectacles of change in the Second Republic -- Part II: Tropes of ambivalent "transitions" -- Part III: Dis/continuing political cultures.

Call Number

ReCAP 22-11855

ISBN

• 9781032040264
• 1032040262

LCCN

2021022029

OCLC

1252740034

Title

Cultures of change in contemporary Zimbabwe : socio-political transition from Mugabe to Mnangagwa / edited by Oliver Nyambi, Tendai Mangena and Gibson Ncube.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge contemporary Africa

Routledge contemporary Africa series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

ED: UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE.

Chronological Term

2017

Added Author

Nyambi, Oliver, editor.

Mangena, Tendai, editor.

Ncube, Gibson, editor.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 22-11855