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Strategies of Representation in Auto/biography This page intentionally left blank Strategies of Representation in Auto/biography Reconstructing and Remembering Editedby Muchativugwa Hove North-WestUniversity,SouthAfrica and Kgomotso Masemola UniversityofSouthAfrica Selection,introductionandeditorialcontent©MuchativugwaHove andKgomotsoMasemola2014 Individualchapters©Respectiveauthors2014 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1 st edition 2014 978-1-137-34032-0 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6–10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. 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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! vii 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.
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