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The Politics of the Past in Zimbabwe

Series: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, Volume: 35

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Print Publication Date:: 31 Mar 2025

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Front Matter

Preliminary Material

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Past as Political Present in Zimbabwe: An Introduction

Part 1 Material Worlds

Chapter 1 Exhumations as Performance: Bones as Provokers and Invokers of the Past in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe

Chapter 2 The Uses and Abuses of Cultural and Liberation Heritage in Zimbabwe’s Political Present

Chapter 3 Disrupting Zimbabwe’s Silenced Pasts through Art: a Conversation with Owen Maseko

Part 2 Literary Worlds

Chapter 4 The ‘Dissident’ in Fiction and Non-Fiction: History, Imagination, and the Intimate Violence of Nation-Making

Chapter 5 Whose Great Betrayal? Strategies of Self-Defense in Ian Smith and Joshua Nkomo’s Political Memoirs

Chapter 6 Rewriting Legacy: The End of Robert Mugabe’s Rule in Four Nonfictional Texts

Chapter 7 Voicing Silences and Healing Haunted Pasts: Petina Gappah and Elleke Boehmer in Conversation

Part 3 Online Worlds

Chapter 8 Memory and the Political Uses of the Past in Digital Ndebele Nationalism

Chapter 9 Chimurenga File(s): Memory, Mockumentary, Parody, and Politics in Zimbabwe

Part 4 Political Worlds

Chapter 10 (Ir)reconcilable Pasts? Postcolonial Apology to British Child Migrants – the Case of Rhodesia Fairbridge Memorial College

Chapter 11 Politics as War: Five Historical Myths about Zimbabwean Cold War Politics

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