Caricaturing the Names âNew Dispensationâ and âSecond Republicâ: NoViolet Bulawayoâs Glory (2022) and the Thesis on Political Madness

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NoViolet Bulawayoâs Glory (2022) is literary unpacking of the names âNew Dispensationâ and âSecond Republicâ. Using caricature and madness, Bulawayo inverts the palimpsestic imaginaries used by Mnangagwa to relaunch his post-coup career and presidency. Caricature is used as a deliberately un/subtle way to fictionalise ostensibly identifiable Zimbabwean political figures. Madness depicts ZANUâPFâs legacy of political delinquency, references the Zimbabwean genocide (the Gukurahundi) which signifies the psychic scars of political violence and psycho-spiritual presences of the unsettled dead. These nuances articulate the histories disavowed by Mnangagwa through nomenclatures like New Dispensation and Second Republic. Bulawayo implicates the caricatured New Dispensation in these manifestations of madness thereby exposing its authoritarian and violent âlegacyâ. Madness becomes a trope through which the novel subverts Mnangagwaâs re-christened regime by re-inscribing his political footprint in Zimbabwean history and demonstrating that the New Dispensation is the Old Dispensation, and that the Second Republic is, in fact, the first. Ultimately, this chapter proffers a reading of both Mugabeâs and Mnangagwaâs regimes as dispensations of madness.

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Subversion, Resistance and Contestations

The Politics of Names and Naming in Zimbabwe

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