Zimbabwe’s fictions and rebellious entextualisation: ‘[A]ll the xenophobia, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia and yugoslavia’
Zimbabwe’s fictions and rebellious entextualisation: ‘[A]ll the xenophobia, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia and yugoslavia’
The article comparatively scrutinizes the world-making potential of two Zimbabwean novels
(Chenjerai Hove’s 1988 Bones and Brian Chikwava’s 2009 Harare North) against the
background of, on the one hand, the official naming codes and practices of the Mugabeist
state, and on the other, the emergent critical orthodoxy regarding the about-turn in the
worldly orientation of Zimbabwe’s fiction since the political turmoil of 2000s. I argue that
there is in fact a discernible strand of continuity between the cosmopolitan-nationalist
inscriptions each novel performs, and that the textual dialogue between what I call their
rebellious entextualisations troubles and interrupts the worlds of necropolitan naming.
cosmopolitanism Chikwava Hove nation world Zimbabwe
529-548
Primorac, Ranka
8e175d18-8ea8-4228-8637-671427202b10
July 2018
Primorac, Ranka
8e175d18-8ea8-4228-8637-671427202b10
Primorac, Ranka
(2018)
Zimbabwe’s fictions and rebellious entextualisation: ‘[A]ll the xenophobia, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia and yugoslavia’.
Interventions, 20 (4), .
(doi:10.1080/1369801X.2018.1487318).
Abstract
The article comparatively scrutinizes the world-making potential of two Zimbabwean novels
(Chenjerai Hove’s 1988 Bones and Brian Chikwava’s 2009 Harare North) against the
background of, on the one hand, the official naming codes and practices of the Mugabeist
state, and on the other, the emergent critical orthodoxy regarding the about-turn in the
worldly orientation of Zimbabwe’s fiction since the political turmoil of 2000s. I argue that
there is in fact a discernible strand of continuity between the cosmopolitan-nationalist
inscriptions each novel performs, and that the textual dialogue between what I call their
rebellious entextualisations troubles and interrupts the worlds of necropolitan naming.
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Accepted/In Press date: 12 March 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 2 July 2018
Published date: July 2018
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cosmopolitanism Chikwava Hove nation world Zimbabwe
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/418865
ISSN: 1369-801X
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