Land and nationalism in fictions from Southern Africa

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    • Graham, James (James John George)

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Land and nationalism in fictions from Southern Africa

James Graham

(Routledge research in postcolonial literatures, 24)

Routledge, 2009

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Graham investigates the relation between land and nationalism in South African and Zimbabwean fiction from the 1960s to the present. He discusses a range of writing against a backdrop of regional decolonisation, and offers new ways of thinking about the relationship between land, nation and politics in Southern Africa

Bibliography: p. [183]-196

Includes index

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In this volume, Graham investigates the relation between land and nationalism in South African and Zimbabwean fiction from the 1960s to the present. This comparative study, the first of its kind, discusses a wide range of writing against a backdrop of regional decolonization, including novels by the prize-winning authors J.M Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Chenjerai Hove, and Yvonne Vera. By employing a range of critical perspectives-cultural materialist, feminist and ecocritical-this book offers new ways of thinking about the relationship between literature, politics and the environment in Southern Africa. The return of land has been central to the material and cultural struggles for decolonization in Southern Africa, yet between the advent of democracy in Zimbabwe (1980) and South Africa (1994) and Zimbabwe's decision to fast-track land redistribution in 2000, it has been limited land reform rather than widespread land redistribution that has prevailed. During this period nationalist discourses of reconciliation and economic development replaced those of revolution and decolonization. This book develops a critique of both forms of nationalistic narrative by focusing on how different and often opposing idea of land and nation are reflected, refracted and even refused in the fictions.

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Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction: Writing the Land in Southern Africa: From 'an endless drama of domicile and challenge' to 'a country with land but no habitat' Chapter One: Possessions: Nationalisms and 'the land' in Zimbabwean Fiction 1975-1988 Chapter Two: Repossessions: Subterranean (Trans)nationalisms in South African Fiction 1969-1979 Chapter Three: Reconstructions: Abjection and the Re-writing of Cultural Nationalism in Zimbabwean Fiction 1989-2002 Chapter Four: From Repossession to Reform: A New Terrain in South African Fiction 1990-2000 Notes Bibliography Index

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