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Strategies of
Representation in
Auto/biography
Reconstructing and Remembering
Editedby
Muchativugwa Hove
North-WestUniversity,SouthAfrica
and
Kgomotso Masemola
UniversityofSouthAfrica
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andKgomotsoMasemola2014
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
NotesonContributors viii
Introduction 1
MuchativugwaHoveandKgomotsoMasemola
1 FictionsofAutobiographicalRepresentations:Joshua
Nkomo’sTheStoryofMyLife 4
MauriceTaonezviVambe
2 Memory,GenderandNarration:Reconstructionof
SubjectivityinMakeba’sMyStoryandMasekela’s
StillGrazing 24
NonhlanhlaDhlamini
3 ImaginingtheNation:Autobiography,Memoir,History
orFictioninPeterGodwin’sWritings 36
MuchativugwaLibertyHove
4 Denomi/Nation:EnvisioningPossibilitiesof
ReconstructinganAlternativeZimbabweinMuzorewa’s
RiseUpandWalk 60
TasiyanaD.Javangwe
5 ReadingDzino:MemoriesofaFreedomFighter 78
ArthurP.T.Makanda
6 VortexofViolence:TheApocalypticImagination
inPeterGodwin’sTheFear 97
MuchativugwaLibertyHove
7 “WeWereLittleKingsinRhodesia”:Rhodesian
DiscourseandRepresentationsofColonialViolencein
KandayaandLet’sDon’tGototheDogsTonight 116
MurengaJosephChikowero
v
vi Contents
8 WomenRe-definingThemselvesintheContext
ofHIVandAIDS:InsightsfromTendayiWesterhof’s
UnluckyinLove 143
AnnaChitando
9 HistoricalMetaphorsoftheSelf:ChimurengaNamesas
Autobiography 171
CharlesPfukwa
Index 184
Acknowledgements
Without the contributions of the authors of each of the chapters
and the countless reviewers who judged the merits of each chapter,
StrategiesofRepresentationwouldnothaveseenthelightofday.
We thank, specifically, Olivia Middleton, commissioning editor at
Palgrave,whomImetinTiananmenSquare,Beijing,andtowhomI
firstmootedtheideaofthisbook.Elizabeth“Libby”Forresthasbeen
ameticulouseditorialassistantandneedsspecialmention,andsodo
DevasenaVedamurthiandteamforcopy-editingassistance.
To Beatrix, Babalwa, Simbarashe, Jeremy Keen, Paul Page, Andrew
Hamling,ViolaandMazviita–enkosi!
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Contributors
Editors
Muchativugwa Liberty Hove is a postdoctoral researcher at North-
West University, South Africa. His research interests include nar-
ration, applied second language studies, autobiographical métis-
sage and critical narrative pragmatism. He has presented papers
at national and international colloquia and published extensively
on language testing, Zimbabwean literature, critical pedagogy and
criticalliterarytheory.
Kgomotso Michael Masemola taught literature and critical theory
at North-West University in South Africa before joining the Univer-
sity of South Africa (UNISA). He has written and published widely
on African literature. He contributed a chapter to Trauma, Resis-
tance, Reconstruction in Post-1994 South African Writing (2010, eds.
JaspalKaurSinghandPeterLang).Essaysinclude:“BetweentheDou-
ble Temporality of Tinseltown and Sophiatown: Cultural Memory
in Miriam Makeba and Bloke Modisane” (2010), “Outside the Pull
of Alterity: Whiteness and the Discourse Regulation of Negotiating
ModernityinMakgoba’sMokokoandCoetzee’sDisgrace”(2008),and
“Embracing the Shadow: Recognising Liminality in Dangarembga’s
JungianUndercurrents”(2001).
Contributors
Murenga Joseph Chikowero is a PhD candidate in African litera-
ture, languages and film at the University of Wisconsin, Madison,
US.Hisdissertationisonviolence,memoryandnarrationinsouth-
ernAfricanLiteratureandFilm.In2010,hecollaboratedwithwriter
PeterOrnerandfilmmakerAnnieHolmesonanoralhistoryproject
which gave birth to the critically acclaimed Hope Deferred: Narra-
tivesofZimbabwe.HehaspublishedinSankofa,aUS-basedjournalof
viii
NotesonContributors ix
AfricanChildren’sLiterature,inIMBIZO,thejournalofInternational
and African Literary and Comparative Studies and in MUZIKI, a
journal of African music. Chikowero has presented academic papers
on violence, memory and narration in African literature and film
at conferences including the African Literature Association and the
AfricanStudiesAssociation.
Anna Chitando is National Co-ordinator for Language, Literature
and Communication Studies at the Zimbabwe Open University. She
writesabouttheineradicablegenerationalstigmaofwomanhood.
Nonhlanhla Dhlamini is a lecturer at the University of Swaziland
and a PhD candidate at Witwatersrand University. Her thesis dis-
cusses the literary representation of black masculinities in contem-
poraryblackSouthAfricanliterature.
Tasiyana D. Javangwe is currently Chairperson of the Depart-
ment of English and Communication at Midlands State University,
Zimbabwe. He has published widely on Zimbabwean, African and
Latin American life narratives and literature in general. He was
co-editor of the UNISA Latin American Report Volume 1 Number 2
(2009), which featured literary representations of the African and
Latin American experience. His research interests are the politics of
identityandpostcolonialliterarydiscourse.
ArthurP.T.Makandaisanex-combatant.Hissombrereflectionson
the war of liberation in Zimbabwe course through the (un)sanitised
discourse of scholarship on this war. His contribution to this
anthologyisrespectedforitsoriginalityandthemannerinwhichhe
questions the memorisation of laudatory episodes while pushing to
theperipherypublicmemoriesthatareanindeliblefacetofnational
histories.
Charles Pfukwa is Professor of English at Midlands State Univer-
sity and is currently Dean of the Faculty of Arts. He has written
extensively on literary theory and provided teaching materials for
the Zimbabwe Open University. He has an abiding fascination with
the historiography of the struggle for liberation in Zimbabwe. He
publishedhisworkononomasticsin2013.
