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Violence and Memory in Zimbabwean Literature: Armed Peace in the Postcolonial Era

Violence and Memory in Zimbabwean Literature: Armed Peace in the Postcolonial Era

Chidora, Tanaka

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in African Literature

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1032749555
ISBN13: 9781032749556
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 1 2025
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book investigates how Zimbabwean literary texts subvert state-sponsored amnesia when it comes to the many forms of past and ongoing political violence in Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwean Literature provides an important space for confronting the past and reflecting on how violence continues into the present day. This violent past was forgotten either through the promise of violence against those who sought to remember, or by depicting the violence as a necessary tool of a never-ending decolonisation process, or by appealing to the logic of letting bygones be bygones. For instance, by claiming that the five years of the Gukurahundi genocide were 'a moment of madness', Robert Mugabe set a climate of state-sponsored amnesia which has persisted through subsequent acts of state violence and into the Mnangagwa era. Drawing on key works by Shimmer Chinodya, Alexander Kanengoni, Yvonne Vera, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, Brian Chikwava, Chenjerai Hove, Panashe Chigumadzi, and NoViolet Bulawayo, this book investigates how fictional works challenge this state-sponsored amnesia, in relation both to Gukurahundi and other past and ongoing forms of violence. Bringing together iconic literary texts from 1980 to 2022, the book draws a common thread through the texts' connected histories and highlights their role in de-silencing the past.

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