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This book examines the ways in which political discourses of crisis and 'newness' are (re)produced, circulated, naturalised, received and contested in Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe. It will be of interest to scholars of African Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Language/Discourse Studies, African politics and culture.
List of contents
Introduction: Negotiating the Zimbabwean crisis post-Mugabe (Gibson Ncube, Oliver Nyambi and Tendai Mangena) Part 1: Negotiating memories of Mugabe and the past Chapter 1: Burying or erasing Mugabe? A crisis of memory in the New Dispensation (Tendai Mangena and Gibson Ncube) Chapter 2: Raising her bones: Contextualising the politicisation of Nehanda’s legacy in the post-Mugabe era (Shingi Mavima) Chapter 3: (Un)settling bones: Abstruse liberations and re-gendered commemorations in Panashe Chigumadzi’s These bones will rise again (Oliver Nyambi) Chapter 4: The toponymic undoing of Grace Mugabe and the G40 narrative in the New Dispensation: A political semiotics exegesis (Zvinashe Mamvura, Mickson Mazuruse and Innocent Mupandasekwa) Chapter 5: Rituals of revolution? Place renaming and the crisis of transition in Zimbabwe (Dorcas Zuvalinyenga) Part 2: Discourses of transition and legitimation in popular spaces Chapter 6: The discursive legitimation of the 2017 coup in Zimbabwe’s mainstream newspapers (Mphathisi Ndlovu and Vimbai B. Chinembiri) Chapter 7: The mediatised image of Robert Mugabe during the 2017 Zimbabwean coup (Hugh Mangeya) Chapter 8: Social media, COVID-19 and the ‘Second Republic’ in Zimbabwe: Memes as instruments of subversion on President Mnangagwa’s Facebook page (Rodwell Makombe) Chapter 9: Song, patriotism and (il)legitimacy: The politics of transition in post-Mugabe Zimbabwe (Tavengwa Gwekwerere) Chapter 10: Politics, protest and music in the Second Republic: The subversive aesthetics of Winky D’s post-coup songs (Doreen R. Tivenga) Part 3: Discursive interventions of political transition Chapter 11: Military-assisted transition, the New Dispensation and the facade of change in Zimbabwe post-Mugabe (Wesley Mwatara and Munyaradzi Nyakudya) Chapter 12: Bounded reasoning and the complexity of change in governance: reflections on post-2017 Zimbabwe (Dennis Masaka) Chapter 13: The New Dispensation and the Second Republic: Discoursing transition in the post-Mugabe era (Tsiidzai Matsika) Chapter 14: Semanticising the ‘new’ in the New Dispensation: Discourse and the politics of nationalist renewal in post-2017 Zimbabwe (Sambulo Ndlovu)
Summary
This book examines the ways in which political discourses of crisis and ‘newness’ are (re)produced, circulated, naturalised, received and contested in Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe. It will be of interest to scholars of African Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Language/Discourse Studies, African politics and culture.
