 | The Zimbabwean Crisis after Mugabe: Multidisciplinary Perspectives Subjects: Area Studies; Humanities; Language & Literature; Politics & International Relations; African Studies; Politics & the Media; Media & Film Studies; Language & Linguistics; International Politics; Political Behavior and Participation; African Culture and Society; African Media; African Literature & Language; African Politics; Media & Communications; Discourse Analysis; African Politics; Public Opinion; This book examines the ways in which political discourses of crisis and 'newness' are (re)produced, circulated, naturalised, received and contested in Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe. Going beyond the ordinariness of conventional political, human and social science methods, the book offers new and engaging multi-disciplinary approaches that treat discourse and language as important sites to encounter the politics of contested representations of the Zimbabwean crisis in the wake of the 2017 coup. The book centres discourse on new approaches to contestations around the discursive framing of various aspects of the socio-economic and political crisis related to significant political changes in Zimbabwe post-2017. Contributors in this volume, most of whom experienced the complex transition first-hand, examine some of the ways in which language functions as a socio-cultural and political mechanism for creating imaginaries, circulating, defending and contesting conceptions, visions, perceptions and knowledges of the post-Mugabe turn in the Zimbabwean crisis and its management by the "New Dispensation". This book will be of interest to scholars of African studies, postcolonial studies, language/discourse studies, African politics and culture. Tendai Mangena (PhD) is Associate Professor in African Literary and Cultural studies at Great Zimbabwe University and Research Fellow in the Department of English at the University of the Free State, South Africa. She was a Fulbright Research Scholar in the Department of Comparative Literature and Languages at the University of California, Riverside, USA, in 2020 and an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Postcolonial Literary and Cultural studies at Bremen University, Germany, from 2016 to 2018. Her research interests are in the areas of gender, politics, power, and justice in African literature and onomastics. Oliver Nyambi (PhD) teaches English and Cultural Studies in the Department of English, University of the Free State, South Africa. He is currently an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow hosted by Susan Arndt in The Professorship of English Studies and Anglophone Literatures at Bayreuth University, Germany. A former fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the Duke Africa Initiative at Duke University, USA, his research mainly focuses on crisis/ humanitarian literatures, the Zimbabwean crisis and the cultural politics of marginalities. His recent book is Life-Writing from the Margins in Zimbabwe: Versions and Subversions of Crisis (2019, Routledge). He is an editor with Cogent Arts & Humanities - the open-access journal published by Routledge. He is a rated researcher with the South African National Research Foundation (NRF). Gibson Ncube (PhD) teaches French in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at Stellenbosch University. He is also an Iso Lomso Research Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (South Africa). He is an alumnus Fellow of the African Humanities Programme (American Council for Learned Societies). His research interests are in comparative literature, gender and queer studies and cultural studies. He sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Literary Studies , Nomina Africana as well as the "Governing Intimacies in the Global South" Book Series at Manchester University Press. He is the Assistant Editor of the South African Journal of African Languages and is a coconvenor of the Queer African Studies Association. He is a Y1-rated researcher by the National Research Foundation of South Africa. |
