All Stories

  1. Introduction: the Crisis of Liberation and Contested Transitions in Zimbabwe
  2. “Mother of our nation”: the First Lady and Gendered Politics of Zimbabwean Dispensations
  3. Revis(ion)ing Transition: Douglas Rogers’s Two Weeks in November and the Politics of Witnessing the Zimbabwean Coup
  4. Expatriated Liberations: Re-living a Settler Nation in Memory in Rhodesians Worldwide Contact Magazine
  5. Mugabe, Liberation and the Necropolitics of His Death and Burial
  6. Preliminary Material
  7. (De-)limiting Gender and Sexuality: Queering Liberation in a Conservative Culture
  8. Liberating Liberation: Language, Power and the Politics of the 2017 Militarised ‘transition’
  9. Conclusion
  10. A divided nation? Ethnicity, name-calling and nicknames in cyber Ndebele soccer discourse in Zimbabwe
  11. Of Bob, Madzibaba Gabriel, and Goblins: The Sociopolitics of Name-Calling and Nicknaming Mugabe in Post-2000 Zimbabwe
  12. “No more plastic balls”: Symbolic childhoods in Zimbabwean short stories of the crisis
  13. "Patriotic" literature and counter-discourse in contemporary Zimbabwe
  14. Of weevils and gamatox: titles, names and nicknames in ZANU PF succession politics
  15. Re-framing the prostitute identity in Zimbabwe: An approach to Virginia Phiri’s novel Highway queen (2010)
  16. The past is the present and future1: Ambivalent names and naming patterns in post-2000 Zimbabwe
  17. The ‘new’ woman:Changing Zimbabwean female identities in Valerie Tagwira's novelThe Uncertainty of Hope