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The art of survival : depictions of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwean in crisis / edited by Anna Chitando, Joseph Chikowero and Angeline M. Madongonda.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zimbabwean literature (English)--History and criticism.
- Zimbabwean literature (English).
- Zimbabwe--Politics and government--1980-.
- Zimbabwe.
- Zimbabwe--History--1980-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (229 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
- Summary:
- The Art of Survival: Depictions of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwean in Crisis offers a fresh, interdisciplinary examination of a period against which development in Zimbabwe is often measured, one epitomized by the severe shortages and runaway inflation of 2008. While journalistic stories of the 1998-2008 era often privilege the reductive stories of woe, defeat and crushed hopes, this volume explores how survival was still possible in those circumstances. The book offers insights into how ordinary Zimbabweans battled the odds by making startling innovations in language use to legitimize new surviva
- Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I: Narrating the Crisis: Fiction of Survival
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Part II: Speaking Survival: The Language of Endurance
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Part III: Staging Survival: Music and Drama during the Decade of Crisis
- Chapter Nine
- Chapter Ten
- Chapter Eleven
- Chapter Twelve
- Notes on Contributors.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 20, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-8669-6
- OCLC:
- 930995511
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