Rereading Chenjerai Hove : rupture and suture in Zimbabwean literature / Muchativugwa Liberty Hove.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hove, L. M., Author.

Series:

Routledge studies in African literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hove, Chenjerai, 1956-2015--Criticism and interpretation.

Hove, Chenjerai.

Zimbabwean literature--History and criticism.

Zimbabwean literature.

Physical Description:

xiv, 190 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.

Summary:

"This book assesses the life and works of leading Zimbabwean poet and novelist, Chenjerai Hove. Proposing a reading of Hove's work through the dual concepts of rupture and suture, this book investigates Hove's position as a writer in exile. Described affectionately as 'Change' by his contemporaries, Hove's longing and desire for a free Zimbabwe runs through his works both in his first language, ChiShona, and in his second language, English. Whilst nationalist struggles promised a sense of suture from the wounds of colonialism, in the postcolonial period a new political elite introduced new ruptures, looting resources and flouting the rule of law. Hove's narratives of decolonisation, globalisation and indigenous becoming in his works point to these unfinished historical processes of rupture and suture, bringing in contrasting themes of beauty and ugliness, democracy and despotism, development and anarchy, independence and corruption. In deploying a framework of rupture and suture to Hove's work, this book disrupts fundamentalist frameworks suggesting a return to a pristine precolonial past and argues instead that the process of decolonising is relational and reflexive. Providing an important original analysis of Hove's work, this book also brings in comparisons with other writers in exile, arguing that displaced citizenship allows African writers to trouble the disjuncture in the nationalist and postcolonial project. As such, this book will be an important read not only for researchers of Zimbabwean literature, but also scholars working on African and diasporic literature more widely"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Setting and unsettling the cultural context

Continuities and disruptions in Chenjerai Hove's poetry

Culture, nation and critique in Chenjerai Hove's essays

Imagining and re-inventing the nation through the novel and auto/biography

Futuring a southern episteme; curating struggle and memory

Connecting narrative/s as voicing cultural and epistemic freedoms.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781041239918

1041239912

9781041239932

1041239939

OCLC:

1548634081

Publisher Number:

CIPO000346549