Mobility In Contemporary Zimbabwean Literature In English: Crossing Borders, Transcending Boundaries (Routledge Contemporary Africa)

Introduction -- Zimbabwean Mobility Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century -- Spatial Orders and Mobility in a Shifting National Landscape -- The Chronotope of the Third Chimurenga -- The Interplay between Mobility and Stasis -- Intra-Urban Mobilities -- "Everything moved at a frenzied pace": Movement and Stasis in Valerie Tagwira's The Uncertainty of Hope (2006) -- Leaving Paradise: Inner-City Movement and Transnational Encounters in NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names (2013) -- Unexpected Mobilities in the Madhouse: Shimmer Chinodya's Chairman of Fools (2005) -- Rural-Urban Dynamics -- Uncomfortable Pasts and Diseased Modernities: Shimmer Chinodya's Strife (2006) -- An Internal Mass Migration: The Resettlement Process in Lawrence Hoba's The Trek and Other Stories (2009) -- Travelling Bones, Troubling Pasts: Graham Lang's Place of Birth (2006) -- Transnational Migrations Between Zimbabwe and South Africa -- Border Jumping to "Harare South": Christopher Mlalazi's The Border Jumper-- Migration and entrapment: Ian Holdiing's Of Beasts & Beings (2010) -- Transcontinental Migrations to the West -- Rattling Heads and Haunted Houses: Travelling Ideological Topographies in Brian Chikwava's Harare North (2009) -- Necessary Illusions? Moving Beyond Crisis in Tendai Huchu's The Maestro, the Magistrate, and the Mathematician (2015) -- Conclusion.

• | Author: Magdalena Pfalzgraf
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: July 06, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 270 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0367637812
• | ISBN-13: 9780367637811