Contested Criminalities in Zimbabwean Fiction

List of contents

Introduction: Contesting Criminality in Zimbabwean Fiction in English 1. Remapping the Criminality of the Gukurahundi in Christopher Mlalazi’s Running with Mother and "Tsano" 2. Rethinking the Illegality of Undocumented Migrants 3. Revisiting Homosexuality and Prostitution Crimes 4. Narratives of Female Criminality: Petina Gappah’s and Yvonne Vera’s Writings 5. Antinomies Between Culture and the Law in Petina Gappah’s Two Short Stories

About the author

Tendai Mangena is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Media Studies, Great Zimbabwe University, Zimbabwe, and a Research Fellow in the English Department of University of the Free State, South Africa. Her latest publication is The Postcolonial Condition of Names and Naming Practices in Southern Africa (2016, co-edited with Oliver Nyambi and Charles Pfukwa).

Summary

Addresses the ways in which writers deploy the trope of contested criminality to expose Zimbabwe's socially and politically oppressive cultures in a wide range of novels and short stories published in English. Provides a thoughtful reading of contemporary debates on illegal migration, homophobia, state criminality and gender inequalities.

Product details

• Authors: Tendai Mangena, Tendai (Great Zimbabwe University) Mangena
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367732493
• ISBN: 978-0-367-73249-3
• No. of pages: 167
• Series: Routledge Contemporary Africa
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; TRUE CRIME / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, Zimbabwe, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies